STEAL THIS BOOK

By Abbie Hoffman
copyright ©1971
INTRODUCTION
It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail-that graduat
e school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a s
hiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks. Here too, you le
arn the only rehabilitation possible-hatred of oppression.Steal This Book is, in
a way, a manual of survival in the prison that is Amerika. It preaches jailbre
ak. It shows you where exactly how to place the dynamite that will destroy the
walls. The first section-SURVIVE!-lays out a potential action program for our n
ew Nation. The chapter headings spell out the demands for a free society. A co
mmunity where the technology produces goods and services for whoever needs them,
come who may.
It calls on the Robin Hoods of Santa Barbara Forest to steal from the ro
bber barons who own the castles of capitalism. It implies that the reader alrea
dy is "ideologically set," in that he understands corporate feudalism as the onl
y robbery worthy of being called "crime," for it is committed against the people
as a whole. Whether the ways it describes to rip-off shit are legal or illeg
al is irrelevant. The dictionary of law is written by the bosses of order. Our
moral dictionary says no heisting from each other. To steal from a brother or
sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the
Pig Empire is equally immoral.Community within our Nation, chaos in theirs; that
is the message of SURVIVE!We cannot survive without learning to fight and that
is the lesson in the second section.
FIGHT! separates revolutionaries from outlaws. The purpose of part two i
s not to fuck the system, but destroy it. The weapons are carefully chosen. They
are "home-made," in that they are designed for use in our unique electronic jun
gle. Here the uptown reviewer will find ample proof of our "violent" nature. But
again, the dictionary of law fails us. Murder in a uniform is heroic, in a cost
ume it is a crime. False advertisements win awards, forgers end up in jail. Infl
ated prices guarantee large profits while shoplifters are punished. Politicians
conspire to create police riots and the victims are convicted in the courts. Stu
dents are gunned down and then indicted by suburban grand juries as the trouble-
makers. A modern, highly mechanized army travels 9,000 miles to commit genocide
against a small nation of great vision and then accuses its people of aggression
. Slumlords allow rats to maim children and then complain of violence in the str
eets. Everything is topsy-turvy. If we internalize the language and imagery of t
he pigs, we will forever be fucked. Let me illustrate the point. Amerika was bui
lt on the slaughter of a people. That is its history. For years we watched movie
after movie that demonstrated the white man's benevolence. Jimmy Stewart, the e
pitome of fairness, puts his arm around Cochise and tells how the Indians and th
e whites can live in peace if only both sides will be reasonable, responsible an
d rational (the three R's imperialists always teach the "natives"). "You will fi
nd good grazing land on the other side of the mountain," drawls the public relat
ions man. "Take your people and go in peace." Cochise as well as millions of you
ngsters in the balcony of learning, were being dealt off the bottom of the deck.
The Indians should have offed Jimmy Stewart in every picture and we should have
cheered ourselves hoarse. Until we understand the nature of institutional
violence and how it manipulates values and mores to maintain the power of the fe
w, we will forever be imprisoned in the caves of ignorance. When we conclude tha
t bank robbers rather than bankers should be the trustees of the universities, t
hen we begin to think clearly. When we see the Army Mathematics Research and Dev
elopment Center and the Bank of Amerika as cesspools of violence, filling the mi
nds of our young with hatred, turning one against another, then we begin to thin
k revolutionary.Be clever using section two; clever as a snake. Dig the spirit o
f the struggle. Don't get hung up on a sacrifice trip. Revolution is not about s
uicide, it is about life. With your fingers probe the holiness of your body and
see that it was meant to live. Your body is just one in a mass of cuddly humanit
y. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machine
s, and in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that
guard them. The duty of a revolutionary is to make love and that means staying
alive and free. That doesn't allow for cop-outs. Smoking dope and hanging up Ch
e's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage st
amps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the
distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except
for the grass that will cover its grave.
Section three - LIBERATE! - concerns itself with efforts to free stuff (
or at least make it cheap) in four cities. Sort of a quick U.S. on no dollars a
day. It begins to scratch the potential for a national effort in this area. Sinc
e we are a nation of gypsies, dope on how to move around and dig in anywhere is
always needed. Together we can expand this section. It is far from complete, as
is the entire project. Incomplete chapters on how to identify police agents, ste
al a car, run day-care centers, conduct your own trial, organize a G.I. coffee h
ouse, start a rock and roll band and make neat clothes, are scattered all over t
he floor of the cell. The book as it now stands was completed in the late summer
of 1970. For three months manuscripts made the rounds of every major publisher.
In all, over 30 rejections occurred before the decision to publish the book our
selves was made, or rather made for us. Perhaps no other book in modern times pr
esented such a dilemma. Everyone agreed the book would be a commercial success.
But even greed had its limits, and the IRS and FBI following the manuscript with
their little jive rap had a telling effect. Thirty "yeses" become thirty "noes"
after "thinking it over." Liberals, who supposedly led the fight against censor
ship, talked of how the book "will end free speech."Finally the day we were brin
ging the proofs to the printer, Grove consented to act as distributor. To pull a
total solo trip, including distribution, would have been neat, but such an effo
rt would be doomed from the start. We had tried it before and blew it. In fact,
if anyone is interested in 4,000 1969 Yippie calendars, they've got a deal. Even
with a distributor joining the fight, the battle will only begin when the books
come off the press. There is a saying that "Freedom of the press belongs to tho
se who own one." In past eras, this was probably the case, but now, high speed m
ethods of typesetting, offset printing and a host of other developments have mad
e substantial reductions in printing costs. Literally anyone is free to print th
eir own works. In even the most repressive society imaginable, you can get away
with some form of private publishing. Because Amerika allows this, does not make
it the democracy Jefferson envisioned. Repressive tolerance is a real phenomeno
n. To talk of true freedom of the press, we must talk of the availability of the
channels of communication that are designed to reach the entire population, or
at least that segment of the population that might participate in such a dialogu
e. Freedom of the press belongs to those that own the distribution system. Perha
ps that has always been the case, but in a mass society where nearly everyone is
instantaneously plugged into a variety of national communications systems, wide
-spread dissemination of the information is the crux of the matter. To make the
claim that the right to print your own book means freedom of the press is to com
pletely misunderstand the nature of a mass society. It is like making the claim
that anyone with a pushcart can challenge Safeway supermarkets, or that any chil
d can grow up to be president.State legislators, librarians, PTA members, FBI ag
ents, church-goers, and parents: a veritable legion of decency and order already
is on the march. To get the book to you might be the biggest challenge we face.
The next few months should prove really exciting.Obviously such a project as St
eal This Book could not have been carried out alone. Izak Haber shared the visio
n from the beginning. He did months of valuable research and contributed many of
the survival techniques. Carole Ramer and Gus Reichbach of the New York Law Com
mune guided the book through its many stages. Anna Kaufman Moon did almost all t
he photographs. The cartoonists who have made contributions include Ski Williams
on and Gilbert Sheldon. Tom Forcade, of the UPS, patiently did the editing. Bert
Cohen of Concert Hall did the book's graphic design. Amber and John Wilcox set
the type. Anita Hoffman and Lynn Borman helped me rewrite a number of sections.
There are others who participated in the testing of many of the techniques demon
strated in the following pages and for obvious reasons have to remain anonymous.
There were perhaps over 50 brothers and sisters who played particularly vital r
oles in the grand conspiracy. Some of the many others are listed on the followin
g page. We hope to keep the information up to date. If you have comments, law su
its, suggestions or death threats, please send them to: Dear Abbie P.0. Box 213,
Cooper Station, New York, NY 10003. Many of the tips might not work in your are
a, some might be obsolete by the time you get to try them out, and many addresse
s and phone numbers might be changed. If the reader becomes a participating rese
archer then we will have achieved our purpose.Watch for a special edition called
Steal This White House, complete with blueprints of underground passages, metho
ds of jamming the communications network and a detailed map of the celebrated ro
om where according to Tricia Nixon, "Daddy loves to listen to Mantovanni records
, turn up the air conditioner full blast, sit by the fireplace, gaze out the win
dow to the Washington Monument and meditate on those difficult problems that fac
e all the peoples of this world."December, 1970Cook County JailChicago
"FREE SPEECH IS THE RIGHT TO SHOUT 'THEATER' IN A CROWDED FIRE."
- A YIPPIE PROVERBAIDING AND ABETTINGTim Leary, Tom, Geronimo, Pearl Paperhanger
, Sonny, Pat Solomon, Allan Katzman, Jacob Kohn, Nguyen Van Troi, Susan, Marty,
Andy, Ami, Marshall Bloom, Viva, Ben, Oanh, Robin Palmer, Mom and Dad, Janie Fon
da, Jerry, Denis, LNS, Bernadine Dohrn, a wall in Harvard Square, Nancy, an anon
ymous stewardess, Shirley Wonderful, Roz, Gumbo, Janis, Jimi, Dylan Liberation F
ront, Jeannie, God Slick, John, David, Rusty, Barney, Richard, Denny, Ron Cobb,
the entire Viet Cong, Sam Shephard, Ma Bell, Eric, David, Joe, Kim Agnew, the Pa
rtridge Family, Carol, Alan Ginsburg, Woman's Lib, Julius Lester, Lenny Bruce, H
ack, Billy, Paul, Willy, Colleen, Sid, Johnny Appleseed, the Rat, Craig, Che, Wi
llie Sutton, Wanda, EVO, Jeff, Crazy Horse, Huey, Casey, Bobby, Alice, Mao, Rip,
Ed, Bob, Gay Liberation Front, WPAX, Frank Dudock, Manny, Mungo, Lottie, Rosema
ry, Marshall, Rennie, Judy, Jennifer, Mr. Martin, Keith, Madame Binh, Mike, Elea
nor, Dr. Spock, Afeni, Candice, the Tupamaros, Berkeley Tribe, Gilbert Sheldon,
Stanley Kubrick, Sam, Anna, Skip Williamson, UPS, Andy Stapp, the Yippies, Richa
rd Brautigan, Jano, Carlos Marighella, the Weathermen, Julius Jennings Hoffman,
Quentin, the inmates of TIER A-l Cook County Jail, Houdini, 37, Rosa Luxemberg,
the Kent 25, the Chicago 15, the New York 21, the Motor City 3, the Indianapolis
500, Jack, Joan, Malcolm X, Mayakovsky, Dotson, R. Crumb, Daniel Clyne, Justin,
The FBI Top 10 (now 16), Unis, Dana, Jim Morrison, Brian, John, Gus, Ruth, Nanc
y Unger, Pun, Jomo, Peter, Mark Rudd, Billy Kunstler, Genie, Ken, the Law Commun
e, Paula, Robby, Terry, Dianna, Angela, Ted, Phil, Jefferson Airplane, Len, Tric
ky Prickers, the Berrigans, Stu, Rayanne, J.B., Jonathan Jackson, the Armstrong
Brothers, Homer, Sharon, Fred Hampton, Jean Jacques Lebel, A. H. Maslow, Hanoi R
ose, Sylvia, Fellini, Amaru, Ann Fettamen, Artaud, Bert, Merrill, Lynne, and las
t but not least to Spiro what's his name who provided the incentive.
SURVIVE!
FREE FOOD RESTAURANTS
In a country such as Amerika, there is bound to be a hell-of-a-lot food
lying around just waiting to be ripped off. If you want to live high off the hog
without having to do the dishes, restaurants are easy pickings.
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you are wearing th
e correct uniform. You should always have one suit or fashionable dress outfit h
anging in the closet for the proper heists. Specialized uniforms, such as nun an
d priest garb, can be most helpful. Check out your local uniform store for a wid
e range of clothes that will get you in, and especially out, of all kinds of sto
res. Every movement organization should have a prop and costume department.In ev
ery major city there are usually bars that cater to the New Generation type riff
-raff, trying to hustle their way up the escalator of Big Business. Many of thes
e bars have a buffet or hors-d'oeuvres served free as a come-on to drink more mi
ndless booze. Take a half-empty glass from a table and use it as a prop to ward
off the anxious waitress. Walk around sampling the free food until you've had en
ough. Often, there are five or six such bars in close proximity, so moving aroun
d can produce a delightful "street smorgasbord." Dinner usually begins at 5:00 P
M.If you are really hungry, you can go into a self-service cafeteria and finish
the meal of someone who left a lot on the plate. Self-service restaurants are us
ually good places to cop things like mustard, ketchup, salt, sugar, toilet paper
, silverware and cups for home use. Bring an empty school bag and load up after
you've cased the joint. Also, if you can stomach the food, you can use slugs at
the automat. Finishing leftovers can be worked in even the fanciest of restauran
ts. When you are seated at a place where the dishes still remain, chow-down real
quick. Then after the waitress hands you the menu, say you have to meet someone
outside first, and leave.There are still some places where you can get all you
can eat for a fixed price. The best of these places are in Las Vegas. Sew a plas
tic bag onto your tee-shirt or belt and wear a loose-fitting jacket or coat to c
over any noticeable bulge. Fried chicken is the best and the easiest to pocket,
or should we say bag. Another trick is to pour your second free cup of hot coffe
e into the plastic bag sewed inside your pocket and take it with you.At large ta
ke-out stands you can say you or your brother just picked up an order of fifteen
hamburgers or a bucket of chicken, and got shorted. We have never seen or heard
of anybody getting turned down using this method. If you want to get into a gra
nd food heist from take-out stands, you can work the following nervy bit: from a
pay phone, place an order from a large delivery restaurant. Have the order sent
to a nearby apartment house. Wait a few minutes in the booth after you've hung
up, as they sometimes call back to confirm the order. When the delivery man goes
into the apartment house to deliver the order, you can swipe the remaining orde
rs that are still in his truck.In fancy sit-down restaurants, you can order a la
rge meal and halfway through the main course, take a little dead cockroach or a
piece of glass out of your pocket and place it deftly on the plate. Jump up asto
nished and summon the headwaiter. "Never have I been so insulted. I could have b
een poisoned" you scream slapping down the napkin. You can refuse to pay and lea
ve, or let the waiter talk you into having a brand new meal on the house for thi
s terrible inconvenience.In restaurants where you pay at the door just before le
aving, there are a number of free-loading tricks that can be utilized. After you
've eaten a full meal and gotten the check, go into the restroom. When you come
out go to the counter or another section of the restaurant and order coffee and
pie. Now you have two bills. Simply pay the cheaper one when you leave the place
. This can be worked with a friend in the following way. Sit next to each other
at the counter. He should order a big meal and you a cup of coffee. Pretend you
don't know each other. When he leaves, he takes your check and leaves the one fo
r the large meal on the counter. After he has paid the cashier and left the rest
aurant, you pick up the large check, and then go into the astonishment routine,
complaining that somebody took the wrong check. You end up only paying for your
coffee. Later, meet your partner and reverse the roles in another place.In all t
hese methods, you should leave a good tip for the waiter or waitress, especially
with the roach-in-the-plate gambit. You should try to avoid getting the employe
es in trouble or screwing them out of a tip.One fantastic method of not only get
ting free food but getting the best available is the following technique that ca
n be used in metropolitan areas. Look in a large magazine shop for gourmet diges
ts and tourist manuals. Swipe one or two and copy down a good name from the mast
head inside the cover. Making up a name can also work. Next invest $5.00 to prin
t business cards with the name of the magazine and the new "associate editor." C
all or simply drop into a fancy restaurant, show a copy of the magazine and pres
ent the manager with your card. They will insist that the meal be on the house.G
reat places to get fantastic meals are weddings, bar-mitzvahs, testimonials and
the like. The newspaper society sections have lists of weddings and locations. I
f your city has a large Jewish population, subscribe to the newspaper that servi
ces the Jewish community. There are extensive lists in these papers of family oc
casions where tons of good food is served. Show up at the back of the synagogue
a few hours after the affair has begun with a story of how you'd like to bring s
ome leftovers of "good Jewish food" back to your fraternity or sorority. If you
want to get the food served to you out front, you naturally have to disguise you
rself to look straight. Remarks such as, "I'm Marvin's cousin," or learning the
bride's name, "Gee, Dorothy looks marvelous" are great. Lines like "Betty doesn'
t look pregnant" are frowned upon. A man and woman team can work this free-load
much better than a single person as they can chatter back and forth while stuffi
ng themselves.If you're really into a classy free meal, and you are in a city wi
th a large harbor, check out the passenger ship section in the back pages of the
newspaper. There you find the schedule of departures for ocean cruises. Most tr
ips (these kind, anyway) begin with a fantastic bon voyage party on board ship.
Just walk on a few hours before departure time and start swinging. Champagne, ca
viar, lobster, shrimp and more, all as free as the open seas. If you get really
bombed and miss getting off, you can also wiggle a ride across the ocean. You ge
t sent back as soon as you hit the other side, but it's a free ocean cruise. You
should have a pretty good story ready to go, or you might end up rowing in the
galley.Another possibility for getting a free meal is to go down to the docks an
d get friendly with a sailor. He can often invite you for dinner on board ship.
Foreign sailors are more than glad to meet friends and you can get great foreign
dinners this way.
FOOD PROGRAMS
In Amerika, there is a national food stamp program that unfortunately is
controlled by the states. Many states, for racist reasons, do not want to make
it too available or to publicize the fact that it even exists. It is a much bett
er deal than the food program connected with welfare, because you can use the st
amps to buy any kind of food. The only items excluded are tobacco products and a
lcoholic beverages. In general, you can qualify if you earn less than $165 per m
onth; the less you earn, the more stamps you can receive. There is minimal hassl
e involved once you get by the first hurdle. Show up at your local food stamp of
fice, which can be found by calling the Welfare Department in our city. Make an
appointment to see a representative for your area. They will tell you to bring a
ll sorts of receipts, but the only thing you need are a few rent stubs for the m
ost recent months. An array of various receipt books is a nice supplement to one
's prop room. If the receipts are for a high rent, tell them you rent a room fro
m a group of people and eat separately. They really only want to prove that you
have cooking facilities. Once you get the stamps, you can pick them up regularly
. Some states even mail them to your pad. You can get up to a hundred dollars wo
rth of free purchases a month per person in the most liberal states.Large amount
s of highly nutritional food can be gotten for as little as three cents per meal
from a non-profit organization called Multi-Purpose Food for Millions Foundatio
n, Inc., 1800 Olympic Ave., Santa Monica, California. Write and they will send y
ou details.
SUPERMARKETS
Talking about food in Amerika means talking about supermarkets-mammoth n
eon lighted streets of food packaged to hoodwink the consumers. Many a Yippie ca
n be found in the aisles, stuffing his pockets with assorted delicacies. We have
been shoplifting from supermarkets on a regular basis without raising the sligh
test suspicion, ever since they began.We are not alone, and the fact that so muc
h stealing goes on and the supermarkets still bring in huge profits shows exactl
y how much overcharging has occurred in the first place. Supermarkets, like othe
r businesses, refer to shoplifting as "inventory shrinkage." It's as if we thiev
es were helping Big Business reduce weight. So let's view our efforts as methods
designed to trim the economy and push forward with a positive attitude.Women sh
ould never go shopping without a large handbag. In those crowded aisles, especia
lly the ones with piles of cases, all sorts of goodies can be transferred from s
hopping cart to handbag. A drop bag can be sewn inside a trench coat, for more e
fficient thievery. Don't worry about the mirrors; attendants never look at them.
Become a discriminating shopper and don't stuff any of the cheap shit in your
pockets.Small bottles and jars often have the same size cap as the larger expens
ive sizes. If they have the price stamped on the cap, switch caps, getting the l
arger size for the cheaper price. You can empty a pound box of margarine and fil
l it with sticks of butter. Small narrow items can be hidden in the middle of ro
lls of toilet paper. Larger supermarkets sell records. You can sneak two good LP
's into one of those large frozen pizza boxes. In the produce department, there
are bags for fruit and vegetables. Slip a few steaks or some lamb chops into the
bottom of a large brown bag and pile some potatoes on top. Have a little man in
the white coat weigh the bag, staple it and mark the price. With a black crayon
you can mark your own prices, or bring your own adhesive price tags.It's best t
o work shoplifting in the supermarket with a partner who can act as look-out and
shield you from the eyes of nosy employees, shoppers and other crooks trying to
pick up some pointers. Work out a prearranged set of signals with your partner.
Diversions, like knocking over displays, getting into fist fights with the mana
ger, breaking plate glass windows and such are effective and even if you don't g
et anything they're fun. Haven't you always wanted to knock over those carefully
constructed nine-foot pyramids of garbage?You can walk into a supermarket, get
a few items from the shelves, and walk around eating food in the aisles. Pick u
p some cherries and eat them. Have a spoon in your pocket and open some yogurt
. Open a pickle or olive jar. Get some sliced meat or cheese from the delicatess
en counter and eat it up, making sure to ditch the wrapper. The cart full of ite
ms, used as a decoy, can just be left in an aisle before you leave the store.Cas
e the joint before pulling a big rip-off. Know the least crowded hours, learn th
e best aisles to be busy in, and check out the store's security system. Once you
get into shoplifting in supermarkets, you'll really dig it. You'll be surprised
to learn that the food tastes better.Large scale thievery can best be carried o
ut with the help of an employee. Two ways we know of work best. A woman can get
a job as a cashier and ring up a small bill as her brothers and sisters bring ho
me tons of stuff.The method for men involves getting a job loading and unloading
trucks in the receiving department. Some accomplices dressed right can just pul
l in and, with your help, load up on a few cases. Infiltrating an employee into
a store is probably the best way to steal. Cashiers, sales clerks, shippers, and
the like are readily available jobs with such high turnover and low pay that li
ttle checking on your background goes on. Also, you can learn what you have to d
o in a few days. The rest of the week, you can work out ways to clean out the st
ore. After a month or so of action you might want to move on to another store be
fore things get heavy. We know one woman working as a cashier who swiped over $5
00 worth of food a week. She had to leave after a month because her boss thought
she was such an efficient cashier that he insisted on promoting her to a job th
at didn't have as many fringe benefits for her and her friends.Large chain store
s like Safeway throw away day-old vegetables, the outer leaves of lettuce, celer
y and the like. This stuff is usually found in crates outside the back of the bu
ilding. Tell them you're working with animals at the college labs, or that you r
aise guinea pigs. They might even get into saving them for you, but if they don'
t just show up before the garbage is collected, (generally early in the morning)
, and they'll let you cart away what you want.Dented cans and fruit can often be
gotten free, but certainly at a reduced rate. They are still as good as the und
amaged ones. So be sure to dent all your cans before you go to the cashier.Look
up catering services and businesses that service factories and office buildings
with ready-made sandwiches. Showing up at these places at the right times (cater
ing services on late Sunday night and sandwich dealers at 5:00 PM on weekdays) w
ill produce loads of good food. Legally, they have to dispose of the food that's
left over. They would be more than happy to give it to you if you spin a good s
tory.Butchers can be hustled for meat scraps with meat scraps with a "for my dog
" story, and bakeries can be asked for day-old rolls and bread.
WHOLESALE MARKETS
Large cities all have a wholesale fruit and vegetable area where often t
he workers will give you tons of free food just for the asking. Get a good story
together. Get some church stationery and type a letter introducing yourself "to
whom it may concern," or better still, wear some clerical garb. Orchards also m
ake good pickings just after the harvest has been completed.Factories often will
give you a case or two of free merchandise for a "charitable" reason. Make some
calls around town and then go pick up the stuff at the end of the week. A great
idea is to get a good list of a few hundred large corporations around the count
ry by looking up their addresses at the library. Poor's Register of Companies, D
irectors and Executives has the most complete list. Send them all letters compla
ining about how the last box of cereal was only half full, or you found a dead f
ly in the can of peaches. They often will send you an ample supply of items just
to keep you from complaining to your friends or worse, taking them to court. Of
ten you can get stuff sent to you by just telling them how good their product is
compared to the trash you see nowadays. You know the type of letter - "Rice Kri
spies have had a fantastic effect on my sexual prowess," or "Your frozen asparag
us has given a whole new meaning to my life." In general though, the nasties get
the best results.Slaughterhouses usually have meat they will give away. They ar
e anxious to give to church children's programs and things like that. In most st
ates, there is a law that if the slab of meat touches the ground, they have to t
hrow it away. Drop around meat houses late in the day and trip a few trucks.Fish
ermen always have hundreds of pounds of fish that have to be thrown out. You can
have as much as you can cart away, generally just for the asking. Boats come in
late in the afternoon and they'll give you some of the catch, or you can go to
the markets early in the morning when the fishing is best.These methods of getti
ng food in large quantities can only be appreciated by those who have tried it.
You will be totally baffled by the unbelievable quantities of food that will be
laid on you and with the ease of panhandling.Investing in a freezer will allow y
ou to bi-weekly or even monthly trips to the wholesale markets and you'll get th
e freshest foods to boot. Nothing can beat getting it wholesale for free. Or is
it free for wholesale? In any event, "bon appetit."
FOOD CONSPIRACIES
Forming a food cooperative is one of the best ways to promote solidarity
and get every kind of food you need to survive real cheap. It also provides
a ready-made bridge for developing alliances with blacks, Puerto Ricans, chican
os and other groups fighting our common oppressor on a community level.Call a me
eting of about 20 communes, collectives or community organizations. Set up the g
round rules. There should be a hard-core of really good hustlers that serve as t
he shopping or hunting party and another group of people who have their heads to
gether enough to keep records and run the central distribution center. Two or th
ree in each group should do it. They can get their food free for the effort. Ano
ther method is to rotate the activity among all members of the conspiracy. The m
ethod you choose depends upon your politics and whether you favor a division of
labor or using the food conspiracy as a training for collective living. Probably
a blend of the two is best, but you'll have to hassle that out for yourself. Th
e next thing to agree upon is how the operation and all the shit you get will be
paid for. This is dependent on a number of variables, so we'll map out one sch
eme and you can modify it to suit your particular situation. Each member of ever
y commune could be assessed a fee for joining. You want to get together about $2
,000, so at 200 members, this is ten bucks a piece. After the joining fee, each
person or group has to pay only for the low budget food they order, but some loo
t is needed to get things rolling. The money goes to getting a store front or ga
rage, a cheap truck, some scales, freezers, bags, shelving, chopping blocks, sli
cer and whatever else you need. You can get great deals by looking in the class
ified ads of the local overground newspaper and checking for restaurants or mark
ets going out of business. Remember the idea of a conspiracy is to get tons of s
tuff at real low prices or free into a store front, and then break it down into
smaller units for each group and eventually each member. The freezers allow you
to store perishables for a longer time.The hunting party should be well acquaint
ed with how to rip off shit totally free and where all the best deals are to be
found. They should know what food is seasonal and about nutritional diets. There
is a lot to learn, such as where to get raw grains in 100 pounds lots and how t
o cut up a side of beef. A good idea is to get a diet freak to give weekly talks
in the store front. There can also be cooking lessons taught, especially to men
, so women can get out of the kitchen.Organizing a community around a basic issu
e of survival, such as food, makes a lot of nitty gritty sense. After your consp
iracy gets off the ground and looks permanent, you should seek to expand it to i
nclude more members and an emergency food fund should be set up in case somethin
g happens in the community. There should also be a fund whereby the conspiracy c
an sponsor free community dinners tied into celebrations. Get it together and jo
in the fight for a world-wide food conspiracy. Seize the steak!
CHEAP CHOW
There are hundreds of good paperback cook books with nutritional cheap r
ecipes available in any bookstore. Cooking is a vastly overrated skill. The foll
owing are a few all-purpose dishes that are easy to make, nutritional and cheap
as mud pies. You can add or subtract many of the ingredients for variety.
Hog Farm Granola Breakfast (Road Hog Crispies)¸
c millet
2 c raw oats¸
c cracked wheat
1 c rye flakes¸
c buckwheat groats
1 c wheat flakes¸
c wheat germ
1 c dried fruits and/or nuts¸
c sunflower seeds
3 tbs soy oil¹
c sesame seeds
1 c honey
2 tbs cornmeal
Boil the millet in a double boiler for 1/2 hour. Mix in a large bowl all
the ingredients including the millet. The soy oil and honey should be heated in
a saucepan over a low flame until bubbles form. Spread the cereal in a baking p
an and cover with the honey syrup. Toast in oven until brown. Stir once or twice
so that all the cereal will be toasted. Serve plain or with milk. Refrigerate p
ortion not used in a covered container. Enough for ten to twenty people. Make lo
ts and store for later meals. All these ingredients can be purchased at any heal
th store in a variety of quantities. You can also get natural sugar if you need
a sweetener. If bought and made in quantity, this fantastically healthy breakfas
t food will be cheaper than the brand name cellophane that passes for cereal.
Whole Earth Bread
1 c oats,
corn meal, or wheat germ
2 tsp salt1¸
c water (warm)
2 egg yolks¹
c sugar (raw is best)
4 c flour1 pkg active dry yeast
c corn oil1
c dry milk or butter
Stir lightly in a large bowl the oats, cornmeal or wheat germ (depending
on the flavor bread you desire), the water and sugar. Sprinkle in the yeast and
wait 10 minutes for the yeast to do its thing. Add salt, egg yolks, corn oil an
d dry milk. Mix with a fork. Blend in the flour. The dough should be dry and a l
ittle lumpy. Cover with a towel and leave in a warm place for a half hour. Now m
ash, punch, blend and kick the dough and return it covered to its warm place. Th
e dough will double in size. When this happens, separate the dough into two even
masses and mash each one into a greased bread (loaf) pan. Cover the pans and le
t sit until the dough rises to the top of the pans. Bake for 40-45 minutes in a
350 degree oven that has not been pre-heated. A shallow tray of water in the bot
tom of the oven will keep the bread nice and moist. When you remove the pans fro
m the oven, turn out the bread into a rack and let it cool off. Once you get the
hang of it, you'll never touch ready-made bread, and it's a gas seeing yeast wo
rk.Street SaladSalad can be made by chopping up almost any variety of vegetables
, nuts and fruits including the stuff you panhandled at the back of supermarkets
; dandelions, shav, and other wild vegetables; and goods you ripped off inside s
tores or from large farms. A neat fresh dressing consists of one part of oil, tw
o parts wine vinegar, finely chopped garlic cloves, salt and pepper. Mix up the
ingredients in a bottle and add to the salad as you serve it. Russian dressing i
s simply mayonnaise and ketchup mixed.Yippie YogurtYogurt is one of the most nut
ritional foods in the world. The stuff you buy in stores has preservatives added
to it reducing its health properties and increasing the cost. Yogurt is a bacte
ria that spreads throughout a suitable culture at the correct temperature. Begin
by going to a Turkish or Syrian restaurant and buying some yogurt to go. Some r
estaurants boast of yogurt that goes back over a hundred years. Put it in the re
frigerator.Now prepare the culture in which the yogurt will multiply. The consis
tency you want will determine what you use. A milk culture will produce thin yog
urt, while sweet cream will make a thicker batch. It's the butter fat content th
at determines the consistency and also the number of calories. Half milk and hal
f cream combines the best of both worlds. Heat a quart of half and half on a low
flame until just before the boiling point and remove from the stove. This knock
s out other bacteria that will compete with the yogurt. Now take a tablespoon of
the yogurt you got from the restaurant and place it in the bottom of a bowl (no
t metal). Now add the warm liquid. Cover the bowl with a lid and wrap tightly wi
th a heavy towel. Place the bowl in a warm spot such as on top of a radiator or
in a sunny window. A turned-off oven with a tray of boiling water placed in it w
ill do well. Just let the bowl sit for about 8 hours (overnight). The yogurt sim
ply grows until the whole bowl is yogurt. Yippie! It will keep in the refrigerat
or for about two weeks before turning sour, but even then, the bacteria will pro
duce a fresh batch of top quality. Remember when eating it to leave a little to
start the next batch. For a neat treat add some honey and cinnamon and mix into
the yogurt before serving. Chopped fruit and nuts are also good.Rice and Cong Sa
uce1 c brown rice vegetables2 c water 2¸ tbs soy saucetsp saltBring the
water to a boil in a pot and add the salt and rice. Cover and reduce flame. Cook
ing time is about 40 minutes or until rice has absorbed all the water. Meanwhile
, in a well-greased frying pan, saute a variety of chopped vegetables you enjoy.
When they become soft and brownish, add salt and 2 cups of water. Cover with a
lid and lower flame. Simmer for about 40 minutes, peeking to stir every once in
a while. Then add 2 1/2 tbs of soy sauce, stir and cook another 10 minutes. The
rice should be just cooling off now, so add the sauce to the top of it and serve
. Great for those long guerrilla hikes. This literally makes up almost the entir
e diet of the National Liberation Front fighter.
Weatherbeans
1 lb red kidney beans
2 tbs parsley (chopped)
2 quarts water ¸
lb pork, smoked sausage
1 onion (chopped)or ham hock
1 tbs celery (chopped)
1 lg bay leaf
1 tsp garlic (minced)
salt to season
Rinse the beans, then place in covered pot and add water and salt. Cook
over low flame. While cooking, chop up meat and brown in a frying pan. Add onion
, celery, garlic and parsley and continue sauteing over low flame. Add the piece
s of meat, vegetables and bay leaf to the beans and cook covered for 1 1/2 to 2
hours. It may be necessary to add more water if the beans get too dry. Fifteen m
inutes before beans are done, mash about a half cup of the stuff against the sid
e of the pan to thicken the liquid. Pour the beans and liquid over some steaming
rice that you've made by following the directions above. This should provide a
cheap nutritional meal for about 6 people.Hedonist's Deluxe2 lobsters 2 qts wa
terseaweed ¹ lb butterSteal two lobsters, watching out for the claw thingies.
Beg some seaweed from any fish market. Cop the butter using the switcheroo meth
od described in the Supermarket section above. When you get home, boil the water
in a large covered pot and drop in the seaweed and then the lobsters. Put the c
over back on and cook for about 20 minutes. Melt the butter in a sauce pan and d
ip the lobster pieces in it as you eat. With a booster box, described later you'
ll be able to rip off a bottle of vintage Pouilly-Fuisse in a fancy liquor store
. Really, rice is nice but...FREE
CLOTHING & FURNITUREFREE CLOTHING
If shoplifting food seems easy, it's nothing compared to the snatching o
f clothing. Shop only the better stores. Try thing on in those neat secluded sta
lls. The less bulky items such as shirts, vests, belts and socks can be tied aro
und your waist or leg with large rubber bands if needed. Just take a number of i
tems in and come out with a few less.In some cities there are still free stores
left over from the flower power days. Churches often have give-away clothing pro
grams. You can impersonate a clergyman and call one of the large clothing manufa
cturers in your area. They are usually willing to donate a case or two of shirts
, trousers or underwear to your church raffle or drive to dress up skid row. Be
sure to get your sizes. Tell them "your boy" will pick up the blessed donation a
nd you'll mention his company in the evening prayers.If you notice people moving
from an apartment or house, ask them if they'll be leaving behind clothing. The
y usually abandon all sorts of items including food, furniture and books. Offer
to help them carry out stuff if you can keep what they won't be taking.Make the
rounds of a fancy neighborhood with a truck and some friends. Ring doorbells and
tell the person who answers that you are collecting wearable clothing for the "
poor homeless victims of the recent tidal wave in Quianto a small village in Sau
di Arabia." You get the pitch. Make it food and clothing, and say you're with a
group called Heartline for Decency. A phony letter from a church might help here
.The Salvation Army does this, and you can pick up clothes from them at very che
ap prices. You can get a pair of snappy casual shoes for 25 cents in many bowlin
g alleys by walking out with them on your feet. If you have to leave your shoes
as a deposit, leave the most beat-up pair you can find.Notice if your friends ha
ve lost or gained weight. A big change means a lot of clothes doing nothing but
taking up closet space. Show up at dormitories when college is over for the summ
er or winter season. Go to the train or bus stations and tell them you left your
raincoat, gloves or umbrella when you came into town. They'll take you to a roo
m with thousands of unclaimed items. Pick out what you like. While there, notice
a neat suitcase or trunk and memorize the markings. Later a friend can claim th
e item. There will be loads of surprises in any suitcase. We have a close friend
who inherited ten kilos of grass this way.Large laundry and dry cleaning chains
usually have thousands of items that have gone unclaimed. Manufacturers also ha
ve shirts, dresses and suits for rockbottom prices because of a crooked seam or
other fuck-up. Stores have reduced rates on display models: Mannequins are mostl
y all size 40 for men and 10 for women. Size 7 1/2 is the standard display size
for men's shoes. If you are these sizes, you can get top styles for less than ha
lf price.
SANDALS
The Vietnamese and people throughout the Third World make a fantasticall
y durable and comfortable pair of sandals out of rubber tires. They cut out a se
ction of the outer tire (trace around the outside of the foot with a piece of ch
alk) which when trimmed forms the sole. Next 6 slits re made in the sole so the
rubber straps can be criss-crossed and slid through the slits. The straps are ma
de out of inner tubing. No nails are needed. If you have wide feet, use the new
wide tread low profiles. For hard going, try radials. For best satisfaction and
quality, steal the tires off a pig car or a government limousine.Let's face it,
if you really are into beating the clothing problem, move to a warm climate and
run around naked. Skin is absolutely free, and will always be in style. Speaking
of style, the midi and the maxi have obvious advantages when it comes to shopli
fting and transporting weapons or bombs.FREE
FURNITURE
Apartment lobbies are good for all kinds of neat furniture. If you want
to get fancy about it, rent a truck (not one that says U-HAUL-IT or other rental
markings) and make the pick-up with moving-man-type uniforms. When schools are
on strike and students hold seminars and debate into the night, Yippies can be f
ound going through the dorm lobbies and storage closets hauling off couches, des
ks, printing supplies, typewriters, mimeos, etc. to store in secret underground
nests. A nervy group of Yippies in the Midwest tried to swipe a giant IBM 360 co
mputer while a school was in turmoil. All power to those that bring a wheelbarro
w to sit-ins.Check into a high-class hotel or motel remembering to dress like th
e wallpaper. Carry a large dummy suitcase with you and register under a phony na
me. Make sure you and not the bellboy carry this bag. Use others as a decoy. Whe
n you get inside the room, grab everything you can stuff in the suitcase: radio,
T.V. sets (even if it has a special plug you can cut it with a knife and replac
e the cord), blankets, toilet paper, glasses, towels, sheets, lamps, (forget the
imitation Winslow Homer on the wall) a Bible, soap and toss rugs. Before you le
ave (odd hours are best) hang the DO NOT DISTURB sign on your doorknob. This wil
l give you an extra few hours to beat it across the border or check into a new h
otel.Landlords renovating buildings throw out stoves, tables, lamps, refrigerato
rs and carpeting. In most cities, each area has a day designated for discarding
bulk objects. Call the Sanitation Department and say you live in that part of to
wn which would be putting out the most expensive shit and find out the pick-up d
ay. Fantastic buys can be found cruising the streets late at night. Check out th
e backs of large department stores for floor models, window displays and slightl
y damaged furniture being discarded.Construction sites are a good source for bui
lding materials to construct furniture. (Not to mention explosives.) The large w
ooden cable spools make great tables. Cinderblocks, bricks and boards can quickl
y be turned into a sharp looking bookcase. Doors make tables. Nail kegs convert
into stools or chairs. You can also always find a number of other supplies hangi
ng around like wiring, pipes, lighting fixtures and hard hats. And don't forget
those blinking signs and the red lanterns for your own light show. Those black o
il-fed burners are O.K. for cooking, although smoky, and highway flares are swel
l for making fake dynamite bombs.
FREE TRANSPORTATIONHITCH
-HIKING
Certainly one of the neatest ways of getting where you want to go for no
thing is to hitch. In the city it's a real snap. Just position yourself at a bus
y intersection and ask the drivers for a lift when they stop for the red light.
If you're hitching on a road where the traffic zooms by pretty fast, be sure to
stand where the car will have room to safely pull off the road. Traveling long d
istances, even cross-country, can be easy if you have some sense of what you are
doing.A lone hitch-hiker will do much better than two or more. A man and woman
will do very well together. Single women are certain to get propositioned and po
ssibly worse. Amerikan males have endless sexual fantasies about picking up a po
or lonesome damsel in distress. Unless your karate and head are in top form, wom
en should avoid hitching alone. Telling men you have V.D. might help in difficul
t situations.New England and the entire West Coast are the best sections for eas
y hitches. The South and Midwest can sometimes be a real hassle. Easy Rider and
all that. The best season to hitch is in the summer. Daytime is much better than
night. If you have to hitch at night, get under some type of illumination where
you'll be seen.Hitch-hiking is legal in most states, but remember you always ca
n get a "say-so" bust. A "say-so" arrest is to police what Catch-22 is to the Ar
my. When you ask why you're under arrest, the pig answers, "cause I say-so." If
you stand on the shoulder of the road, the pigs won't give you too bad a time. I
f you've got long hair, cops will often stop to play games. You can wear a hat w
ith your hair tucked under to avoid hassles. However this might hurt your abilit
y to get rides, since many straights will pick up hippies out of curiosity who w
ould not pick up a straight scruffy looking kid. Freak drivers usually only pick
up other freaks.Once in a while you hear stories of fines levied or even a few
arrests for hitching (Flagstaff, Arizona is notorious), but even in the states w
here it is illegal, the law is rarely enforced. If you're stopped by the pigs, p
lay dumb and they'll just tell you to move along. You can wait until they leave
and then let your thumb hang out again.Hitchin on super highways is really far o
ut. It's illegal but you won't get hassled if you hitch at the entrances. On a f
ucked-up exit, take your chances hitching right on the road, but keep a sharp ey
e out for porkers. When you get a ride be discriminating. Find out where the dri
ver is headed. If you are at a good spot, don't take a ride under a hundred mile
s that won't end up in a location just as good. When the driver is headed to an
out-of-the-way place, ask him to let you off where you can get the best rides. I
f he's going to a particularly small town, ask him to drive you to the other sid
e of thy town line. It's usually only a mile or two. Small towns often enforce a
ll sorts of "say-so" ordinances. If you get stuck on the wrong side of town, it
would be wise to even hoof it through the place. Getting to a point on the road
where the cars are inter-city rather than local traffic is always preferable.Whe
n you hit the road you should have a good idea of how to get where you are going
. You can pick up a free map at any gas station. Long distance routes, road cond
itions, weather and all sorts of information can be gotten free by calling the A
merican Automobile Association in any city. Say that you are a member driving to
Phoenix, Arizona or wherever your destination is, and find out what you want to
know. Always carry a sign indicating where you are going. If you get stranded o
n the road without one, ask in a diner or gas station for a piece of cardboard a
nd a magic marker. Make the letters bold and fill them in so they can be seen by
drivers from a distance. If your destination is a small town, the sign should i
ndicate the state. For really long distances, EAST or WEST is best. Unless, of c
ourse, you're going north or south. A phony foreign flag sewed on your pack also
helps.Carrying dope is not advisable, and although searching you is illegal, fe
w pigs can read the Constitution. If you are carrying when the patrol car pulls
up, tell them you are Kanadian and hitching through Amerika. Highway patrols are
very uptight about promoting incidents with foreigners. The foreign bit goes ov
er especially well with small-town types, and is also amazingly good for avoidin
g hassles with greasers. If you can't hack this one, tell them you are a reporte
r for a newspaper writing a feature story on hitching around the country. This s
tory has averted many a bust.Don't be shy when you hitch. Go into diners and gas
stations and ask people if they're heading East or to Texas. Sometimes gas stat
ion attendants will help. When in the car be friendly as hell. Offer to share th
e driving if you've got a license. If you're broke, you can usually bum a meal o
r a few bucks, maybe even a free night's lodging. Never be intimidated into givi
ng money for a ride.As for what to carry when hitching, the advice is to travel
light. The rule is to make up a pack of the absolute minimum, then cut that in h
alf. Hitching is an art form as is all survival. Master it and you'll travel on
a free trip forever.
FREIGHTING
There is a way to hitch long distances that has certain advantages over
letting your thumb hang out for hours on some two-laner. Learn about riding the
trains and you'll always have that alternative. Hitchhiking at night can be impo
ssible, but hopping a is easier at night than by day. By hitchhiking days and ho
pping freights and sleeping on them at night, you can cover incredible distances
rapidly and stay well rested. Every city and most large towns have a freight ya
rd. You can find it by following the tracks or asking where the freight yard is
located.When you get to the yard, ask the workmen when the next train leaving in
your direction will be pulling out. Unlike the phony Hollywood image, railroad
men are nice to folks who drop by to grab a ride. Most yards don't have a guard
or a "bull" as they are called. Even if they do, he is generally not around. If
there is a bull around, the most he's going to do is tell you it's private prope
rty and ask you to leave. There are exceptions to this rule, such as the notorio
us Lincoln, Nebraska, and Las Vegas, Nevada, but by asking you can find out. Eve
n if he asks you to leave or throws you out, sneak back when your train is pulli
ng out and jump aboard.After you've located the right train for your trip, hunt
for an empty boxcar to ride. The men in the yards will generally point one out i
f you ask. Pig-sties, flat cars and coal cars are definitely third class due to
exposure to the elements. Boxcars are by far the best. They are clean and the ro
of over your head helps in bad weather and cuts down the wind. Boxcars with a hy
dro-cushion suspension system used for carrying fragile cargo make for the smoot
hest ride. Unless you get one, you should be prepared for a pretty bumpy and noi
sy voyage.You should avoid cars with only one door open, because the pin may bre
ak, locking you in. A car with both doors open gives you one free chance. Pig-ba
cks (trailers on flatcars) are generally considered unsafe. Most trains make a n
umber of short hops, so if time is an important factor try to get on a "hot shot
" express. A hot shot travels faster and has priority over other trains in crowd
ed yards. You should favor a hot shot even if you have to wait an extra hour or
two or more to get one going your way.If you're traveling at night, be sure to d
ress warmly. You can freeze your ass off. Trains might not offer the most comfor
table ride, but they go through beautiful countryside that you'd never see from
the highway or airway. There are no billboards, road signs, cops, Jack-in-the-Bo
xes, gas stations or other artifacts of honky culture. You'll get dirty on the t
rains so wear old clothes. Don't pass up this great way to travel cause some bul
lshit western scared you out of it.
CARS
If you know how to drive and want to travel long distances, the auto tra
nsportation agencies are a good deal. Look in the Yellow Pages under Automobile
Transportation and Trucking or Driveway. Rules vary, but normally you must be ov
er 21 and have a valid license. Call up and tell them when and where you want to
go and they will let you know if they have a car available. They give you the c
ar and a tank of gas free. You pay the rest. Go to pick up the car alone, then g
et some people to ride along and help with the driving and expenses. You can mak
e New York to San Francisco for about eighty dollars in tolls and gas in four da
ys without pushing. Usually you have the car for longer and can make a whole thi
ng out of it. You must look straight when you go to the agency. This can be simp
ly be done by wetting down your hair and shoving it under a cap.Another good way
to travel cheaply is to find somebody who has a car and is going your way. Usu
ally underground newspapers list people who either want rides or riders. Another
excellent place to find information is your local campus. Every campus has a bu
lletin board for rides. Head shops and other community-minded stores have notice
s up on the wall.GasIf you have a car and need some gas late at night you can ge
t a quart and then some by emptying the hoses from the pumps into your tank. The
re is always a fair amount of surplus gas left when the pumps are shut off.If yo
ur traveling in a car and don't have enough money for gas and tolls, stop at the
bus station and see if anybody wants a lift. If you find someone, explain your
money situation and make a deal with him. Hitch-hikers also can be asked to chip
in on the gas.You can carry a piece of tubing in the trunk of your car and when
the gas indicator gets low, pull up to a nice looking Cadillac on some dark str
eet and syphon off some of his gas. Just park your car so the gas tank is next t
o the Caddy's, or use a large can. Stick the hose into his tank, suck up enough
to get things flowing, and stick the other end into your tank. Having a lower le
vel of liquid, you tank will draw gas until you and the Caddy are equal. "To eac
h according to his need, from each according to his ability," wrote Marx. Bet yo
u hadn't realized until now that the law of gravity affects economics.Another wa
y is to park in a service station over their filler hole. Lift off one lid (like
a small manhole cover), run down twenty feet of rubber tubing thru the hole you
've cut in your floorboard, then turn on the electric pump which you have instal
led to feed into your gas tank. All they ever see is a parked car. This techniqu
e is especially rewarding when you have a bus.
BUSES
If you'd rather leave the driving and the paying to them, try swiping a
ride on the bus. Here's a method that has worked well. Get a rough idea of wher
e the bus has stopped before it arrived at your station. If you are not at the b
eginning or final stop on the route, wait until the bus you want pulls in and th
en out of the station. Make like the bus just pulled off without you while you w
ent to the bathroom. If there is a station master, complain like crazy to him. T
ell him you're going to sue the company if your luggage gets stolen. He'll put y
ou on the next bus for free. If there is no station master, lay your sad tale on
 the next driver that comes along. If you know when the last bus left, just tell
the driver you've been stranded there for eight hours and you left your kid sle
eping on the other bus. Tell him you called ahead to the company and they said t
o grab the next bus and they would take care of it.The next method isn't totally
free but close enough. It's called the hopper-bopper. Find a bus that makes a f
ew stops before it gets to where you want to go. The more stops with people gett
ing in our out the better. Buy a ticket for the short hop and stay on the bus un
til you end up at your destination. You must develop a whole style in order to p
ull this off because the driver has to forget you are connected with the ticket
you gave him. Dress unobtrusively or make sure the driver hasn't seen your face.
Pretend to be asleep when the short hop station is reached. If you get question
ed, just act upset about sleeping through the stop you "really" want and ask if
it's possible to get a ride back.
AIRLINES
Up and away, junior outlaws! If you really want to get where you're goin
g in a hurry, don't forget skyjacker's paradise. Don't forget the airlines. They
make an unbelievable amount of bread on their inflated prices, ruin the land wi
th incredible amounts of polluting wastes and noise, and deliberately hold back
aviation advances that would reduce prices and time of flight. We know two foolp
roof methods to fly free, but unfortunately we feel publishing them would cause
the airlines to change their policy. The following methods have been talked abou
t enough, so the time seems right to make them known to a larger circle of frien
ds.A word should be said right off about stolen tickets. Literally millions of d
ollars worth of airline tickets are stolen each year. If you have good underworl
d contacts, you can get a ticket to anywhere you want at one-fourth the regular
price. If you are charged more, you are getting a slight rooking. In any case, y
ou can get a ticket for any flight or date and just trade it in. They are actual
ly as good as cash, except that it takes 30 days to get a refund, and by then th
ey might have traced the stolen tickets. If you can get a stolen ticket, exchang
e or use it as soon as possible, and always fly under a phony name. A stolen tic
ket for a trip around the world currently goes for one hundred and fifty dollars
in New York.One successful scheme requires access to the mailbox of a person li
sted in the local phone book. Let's use the name Ron Davis as an example. A woma
n calls one of the airlines with a very efficient sounding rap such as: "Hello,
this is Mr. Davis' secretary at Allied Chemical. He and his wife would like to f
ly to Chicago on Friday. Could you mail two first-class tickets to his home and
bill us here at Allied?" Every major corporation probably has a Ron Davis, and t
he airlines rarely bother checking anyway. Order your tickets two days before yo
u wish to travel, and pick them up at the mailbox or address you had them sent t
o. If you are uptight in the airport about the tickets, just go up to another ai
rline and have the tickets exchanged.One gutsy way to hitch a free ride is to bo
ard the plane without a ticket. This is how it works. Locate the flight you want
and rummage through a wastebasket until you find an envelope for that particula
r airline. Shuffle by the counter men (which is fairly easy if it's busy). When
the boarding call is made, stand in line and get on the plane. Flash the empty e
nvelope at the stewardess as you board the plane. Carry a number of packages as
a decoy, so the stewardess won t ask you to open the envelope. If she does, whic
h is rare, and sees you have no ticket, act surprised. "Oh my gosh, it must hav
e fallen out in the wash room," will do fine. Run back down the ramp as if you'r
e going to retrieve the ticket. Disappear and try later on a different airline.
Nine out of ten revolutionaries say it's the only way to fly. This trick works o
nly on airlines that don't use the boarding pass system.If you want to be covere
d completely, use the hopper-bopper method described in the section on Buses, wi
th this added security precaution. Buy two tickets from different cashiers, or b
etter still, one from an agent in town. Both will be on the same flight. Only on
e ticket will be under a phony name and for the short hop, white the ticket unde
r your real name will be for your actual destination. At the boarding counter, p
resent the short hop ticket. You will be given an envelope with a white receipt
in it. Actually, the white receipt is the last leaf in your ticket. Once you are
securely seated and aloft, take out the ticket with your name and final destina
tion. Gently peel away everything but the white receipt. Place the still valid t
icket back in your pocket. Now remove from the envelope and destroy the short ho
p receipt. In its place, put the receipt for the ticket you have in your pocket.
When you land at the short hop airport, stay on the plane. Usually the stewardes
ses just ask you if you are remaining on the flight. If you have to, you can act
ually show her your authentic receipt. When you get to your destination, you mer
ely put the receipt back on the bonafide ticket that you still have in your pock
et. It isn't necessary that they be glued together. Present the ticket for a ref
und or exchange it for another ticket. This method works well even in foreign co
untries. You can actually fly around the world for $88.00 using the hopper-boppe
r method and switching receipts.If you can't hack these shucks you should at lea
st get a Youth Card and travel for half fare. If you are over twenty-two but sti
ll in your twenties, you can easily pass. Get a card from a friend who has simil
ar color hair and eyes. Your friend can easily get one from another airline. You
can master your friend's signature and get a supporting piece of identification
from him to back up your youth card if you find it necessary. If you have a fri
end who works for an airline or travel agency, just get a card under your own na
me and an age below the limit. Your friend can validate the card. Flying youth f
are is on stand-by, so it's always a good idea to call ahead and book a number o
f reservations under fictitious names on the flight you'll be taking. This will
fuck up the booking of regular passengers and insure you a seat.By the way, if y
ou fly cross-country a number of times, swipe one of the plug-in head sets. Alwa
ys remember to pack it in your traveling bag. This way you'll save a two dollar
fee charged for the in-flight movie. The headsets are interchangeable on all air
lines.One way to fly free is to actually hitch a ride. Look for the private plan
e area located at every airport, usually in some remote part of the field. You c
an find it by noticing where the small planes without airline markings take off
and land. Go over to the runways and ask around. Often the mechanics will let yo
u know when someone is leaving for your destination and point out a pilot. Tell
him you lost your ticket and have to get back to school. Single pilots often lik
e to have a passenger along and it's a real gas flying in a small plane.Some for
eign countries have special arrangements for free air travel to visiting writers
, artists or reporters. Brazil and Argentina are two we know of for sure. Call o
r write the embassy of the country you wish to visit in Washington or their miss
ion to the United Nations in New York. Writing works best, especially if you can
cop some stationery from a newspaper or publishing house. Tell them you will be
writing a feature story for some magazine on the tourist spots or handcrafts of
the country. The embassy will arrange for you to travel gratis aboard one of th
eir air force planes. The planes leave only from Washington and New York at unsc
heduled times. Once you have the O.K. letter from the embassy you're all set. Th
is is definitely worth checking out if you want to vacation in a foreign country
with all sorts of free bonuses thrown in.A one-way ride is easy if you want to
get into skyjacking. Keep the piece or knife in your shoe to avoid possible dete
ction with the "metal scanner," a long black tube that acts like a geiger counte
r. Or use a plastic knife or bomb. It's also advisable to wrap your dope in a no
n-metallic material. Avoid tinfoil.The crews have instructions to take you where
ver you want to go even if they have to refuel, but watch out for air marshals.
To avoid air marshals and searches pick an airline which flies short domestic ho
ps. You should plan to end up in a country hostile to the United States or you'l
l end up right back where you came from in some sturdy handcuffs. One dude wante
d to travel in style so he demanded $100,000 as a going-away gift. The airlines
quickly paid off. The guy then got greedy and demanded a hundred million dollars
. When he returned to pick up the extra pocket money, he got nabbed. None the le
ss, skyjacking appears to be the cheapest, fastest way to get away from it all.
IN CITY TRAVEL
Any of the public means of transportation can be ripped off easily. Get
on the bus with a large bill and present it after the bus has left the stop. If
the bus is crowded, slip in the back door when it opens to dispatch passengers.T
wo people can easily get through the turnstile in a subway on one token by doubl
ing up. In some subway systems cards are given out to high school kids or senior
citizens or employees of the city. The next time you are in a subway station no
tice people flashing cards to the man in the booth and entering through the "exi
t" door. Notice the color of the card used by people in your age group. Get a pi
ece of colored paper in a stationery store or find some card of the same color y
ou need. Put this "card" in a plastic window of your wallet and flash it in the
same way those with a bona fide pass do.Before entering a turnstile, always test
the swing bar. If someone during the day put in an extra token, it's still in t
he machine waiting for you to enter free.For every token and coin deposited in a
n automatic turnstile, there is a foreign coin the same size for much less that
will work in the machine. (See the Yippie Currency Exchange, following, for more
info.) Buy a cheap bag of assorted foreign coins from a dealer that you can loc
ate in the Yellow Pages. Size up the coins with a token from your subway system.
You can get any of these coins in bulk from a large dealer. Generally they are
about l,000 for five dollars. Tell him you make jewelry out of them if he gets s
uspicious. Giving what almost amounts to free subway rides away is a communal ac
t of love. The best outlaws in the world rip-off shit for a lot more people than
just themselves. Robin Hood lives!
FREE LAND
Despite what you may have heard, there is still some rural land left in
Amerika. The only really free land is available in Alaska and remote barren area
s of the western states. The latest information in this area is found in a perio
dic publication called Our Public Lands, available from the Superintendent of Do
cuments, Washington, D.C. 20402. It costs $1.00 for a subscription. Also contact
the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, D.C
. 20240 and ask for information on "homesteading." By the time this book is out
though, the Secretary of the Interior's friends in the oil companies might have
stolen all the available free land. Being an oil company is about the easiest wa
y to steal millions. Never call it stealing though, always refer to it as "resea
rch and development."Continental United States has no good free land that we kno
w of, but there are some very low prices in areas suited for country communities
. Write to School of Living, Freeland, Maryland, for their newspaper Green Revol
ution with the latest information in this area. Canada has free land available,
and the Canadian government will send you a free list if you write to the Depart
ment of Land and Forests, Parliament Building, Quebec City, Canada. Also write t
o the Geographical Branch, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Parliament
Building, Quebec City, Canada. Correspondence can be carried out with the Commu
nications Group, 2630 Point Grey Road, Vancouver 8, British Columbia, Canada, fo
r advice on establishing a community in Canada. The islands off the coast of Bri
tish Columbia, its western region and the area along the Kootenai River are amon
g the best locations.If you just want to rip off some land, there are two ways t
o do it; openly or secretly. If you are going to do it out front, look around fo
r a piece of land that's in dispute, which has its sovereignty in question-islan
ds and deltas between the U.S. and Canada, or between the U.S. and Mexico, or an
y number of other borderline lands. You might even consider one of the abandoned
oil-drilling platforms, which are fair game under high seas salvage laws. The p
ossibilities are endless.If you intend to do it quietly, you will want a complet
ely different type of location. Find a rugged area with lots of elbow room and p
lenty of places to hide, like the Rocky Mountains, Florida swamps, Death Valley,
or New York City. Put together a tight band of guerrillas and do your thing. Wi
th luck you will last forever.If you just want to camp out or try some hermit li
ving in the plushest surroundings available, you'll do best to head for one of t
he national parks. Since the parks are federal property, there's very little the
local fuzz can do about you, and the forest rangers are generally the live-and-
let-live types, although there have been increasing reports of long-hairs being
vamped on by Smokey the Pig, as in Yosemite. You can get a complete list from Na
tional Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240. The fol
lowing is a list of some good ones: ¥ ALABAMA-Russell Cave National Monument,
Bridgeport 35740
 ¥ ARIZONA-Grand Canyon National Park, Box 129, Grand Canyon 86023
¥ ARKANSAS-Hot Springs National Park, Box 1219, Hot Springs 71901
¥ CALIFORNIA-Yosemite National Park, Box 577, Yosemite 95389*
¥ COLORADO-Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, 80517
¥ FLORIDA-Everglades National Park, Box 279, Homestead 33030
¥ IDAHO-Boise National Forest, 413 Idaho Street, Boise 83702
¥ ILLINOIS-Shawnee National Forest,Harrisburg National Bank Building
, Harrisburg 62946 ¥ KENTUCKY-Mammoth Cave National Park, Mammoth Cave 42259
¥ LOUISIANA-Kisatchie National Forest, 2500 Shreveport Hwy., Pineville 713
60 ¥ MAINE-Acadia National Park, Box 338, Bar Harbor 04609
¥ MARYLAND-Assateague Island National Seashore, Rte. 2 Box 111, Berlin 218
11
¥ MASSACHUSETTS-Cape Cod National Seashore, South Wellfleet 02663
¥ MICHIGAN-Hiawatha National Forest, Post Office Building, Escanaba 49829
¥ MISSOURI-Mark Twain National Forest, 304 Pershing St., Springfield 65806
¥ NEVADA-Lake Mead National Recreation Area, 601 Nevada Hwy, Boulder City
89005
¥ NEW MEXICO-Aztec Ruins National Monument, Route 1, Box 101, Aztec 87410
¥ NEW YORK-Fire Island National Seashore c/o New York City National Park S
ervice Group, 28 E. 20th St., New York, NY 10003
¥ NORTH CAROLINA-Wright Brothers National Memorial Box 457, Manteo 27954
¥ OKLAHOMA-Platt National Park, Box 201, Sulphur 73086
¥ OREGON-Crater Lake National Park, Box 7, Crater Lake 97604
¥ UTAH-Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce Canyon 84717
¥ WYOMING-Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone Park 83020
*This summer Yosemite forest rangers tried to evict a group of Yippies f
rom their encampment. The Yippies rioted in the valley, spooked the tourists, bu
rned cars and fought for their right to stay.Earth People's Park is an endeavor
to purchase land and allow people to come and live for free. They function as a
clearing house for people that want to donate land and those who wish to settle.
They own 600 acres in northern Vermont and are trying to raise money to buy mor
e. Write to Earth People's Park, P.0. Box 313, 1230 Grant Ave., San Francisco, C
alifornia 94133.People's Parks are sprouting up all over as people reclaim the l
and being ripped off by universities, factories, and corrupt city planning agenc
ies. The model is the People's Park struggle in Berkeley during the spring of 19
69. The people fought to defend a barren parking lot they had turned into a comm
unity center with grass, swings, free-form sculpture and gardens. The University
of California, with the aid of Ronald Reagan and the Berkeley storm troopers, f
ought with guns, clubs and tear gas to regain the land from the outlaw people. T
he pigs killed James Rector and won an empty victory. For now the park is fenced
off, tarred over and converted into unused basketball courts and unused parking
lots. Not one person has violated the oath never to set foot on the site. It st
ands, cold and empty, two blocks north of crowded Telegraph Avenue. If the revol
ution does not survive, all the land will perish under the steam roller of imper
ialism. People's Death Valley will happen in our lifetime.
FREE HOUSING
If you are in a city without a place to stay, ask the first group of hip
-looking folks where you can crash. You might try the office of the local underg
round newspaper. In any hip community, the underground newspaper is generally th
e source of the best up-to-the-moment information. But remember that they are ve
ry busy, and don't impose on them. Many churches now have runaway houses. If you
are under sixteen and can hack some bullshit jive about "adjusting," "opening a
dialogue," and "things aren't that bad," then these are the best deals for free
room and board. Check out the ground rules first, i.e., length of stay allowed,
if they inform your parents or police, facilities and services available. Almos
t always they can be accepted at their word, which is something very sacred to m
issionaries. If they became known as double-crossers, the programs would be fini
shed.Some hip communities have crash pads set up, but these rarely last more tha
n a few months. To give out the addresses we have would be quite impractical. We
 have never run across a crash pad that lasted more than a month or so. If in a
cit, try hustling a room at a college dorm. This is especially good in summer or
on week-ends. If you have a sleeping bag, the parks are always good, as is "tar
jungle" or sleeping on the roofs of tall buildings. Local folks will give you s
ome good advice on what to watch out for and information on vagrancy laws which
might help you avoid getting busted.For more permanent needs, squatting is not o
nly free, it's a revolutionary act. If you stay quiet you can stay indefinitely.
If you have community support you may last forever.
COMMUNES
In the city or in the country, communes can be a cheap and enjoyable way
of living. Although urban and rural communes face different physical environmen
ts, they share common group problems. The most important element in communal liv
ing is the people, for the commune will only make it if everyone is fairly compa
tible. A nucleus of 4 to 7 people is best and it is necessary that no member fee
ls extremely hostile to any other member when the commune gets started. The idea
that things will work out later is pig swill. More communes have busted up over
incompatibility than any other single factor. People of similar interests and p
olitical philosophies should live together. One speed freak can wreck almost any
group. There are just too many day-to-day hassles involved living in a commune
to not start off compatible in as many ways as possible. The ideal arrangement i
s for the people to have known each other before they move in together.Once you
have made the opening moves, evening meetings will occasionally be necessary to
divide up the responsibilities and work out the unique problems of a communal fa
mily. Basically, there are two areas that have to be pretty well agreed upon if
the commune is to survive. People's attitudes toward Politics, Sex, Drugs and De
cision-making have to be in fairly close agreement. Then the even most important
decisions about raising the rent, cleaning, cooking and maintenance will have t
o be made. Ground rules for inviting non-members should be worked out before the
first time it happens, as this is a common cause for friction. Another increasi
ngly important issue involves defense. Communes have continually been targets of
attack by the more Neanderthal elements of the surrounding community. In Minnea
polis for example, "headhunts" as they are called are commonplace. You should ha
ve full knowledge of the local gun laws and a collective defense should be worke
d out.Physical attacks are just one way of making war on communes and, hence, ou
r Free Nation. Laws, cops, and courts are there to protect the power and the pro
perty of those that already got the shit. Police harassment, strict enforcement
of health codes and fire regulations and the specially designed anti-commune law
s being passed by town elders, should all be known and understood by the members
of a commune before they even buy or rent property. On all these matters, you s
hould seek out experienced members of communes already established in the vicini
ty you wish to settle. Work out mutual defense arrangements with nearby families
-both legal and extralegal. Remember, not only do you have the right to self-def
ense, but it is your duty to our new Nation to erase the "Easy-Rider-take-any-sh
it" image which invites attack. Let them know you are willing to defend your way
of living and your chances of survival will increase.
URBAN LIVING
If you're headed for city living, the first thing you'll have to do is l
ocate an apartment or loft, an increasingly difficult task. At certain times of
the year, notably June and September, the competition is fierce because of stude
nts leaving or entering school. If you can avoid these two months, you'll have a
better selection. A knowledge of your plans in advance can aid a great deal in
finding an apartment, for the area can be scouted before you move in. Often, if
you know of people leaving a desirable apartment, you can make arrangements with
the landlord, and a deposit will hold the place. If you let them know you're wi
lling to buy their furniture, people will be more willing to give you informatio
n about when they plan to move. Watch out for getting screwed on exorbitant furn
iture swindles by the previous tenants and excessive demands on the part of the
landlords. In most cities, the landlord is not legally allowed to ask for more t
han one month's rent as security. Often the monthly rent itself is regulated by
a city agency. A little checking on the local laws and a visit to the housing ag
ency might prove well worth it.Don't go to a rental agency unless you are willin
g to pay an extra month's rent as a fee. Wanted ads in newspapers and bulletin b
oards located in community centers and supermarkets have some leads. Large unive
rsities have a service for finding good apartments for administrators, faculty a
nd students, in that order. Call the university, say you have just been appointe
d to such-and-such position and you need housing in the area. They will want to
know all your requirements and rent limitations, but often they have very good d
eals available, especially if you've appointed yourself to a high enough positio
n.Aside from these, the best way is to scout a desired area and inquire about fu
ture apartments. Often landlords or rental agencies have control over a number o
f buildings in a given area. You can generally find a nameplate inside the hall
of the building. Calling them directly will let you know of any apartments avail
able.When you get an apartment, furnishing will be the next step. You can double
your sleeping space by building bunk beds. Nail two by fours securely from ceil
ing to floor, about three feet from the walls, where the beds are desired. Then
build a frame out of two by fours at a convenient height. Make sure you use nail
s or screws strong enough to support the weight of people sleeping or balling. N
ail a sheet of 3/4 inch plywood on the frame. Mattresses and almost all furnitur
e needed for your pal can be gotten free (see section on Free Furniture). Silver
ware can be copped at any self-service restaurant.
RURAL LIVING
If you are considering moving to the country, especially as a group, you
are talking about farms and farmland. There are some farms for rent, and occasi
onally a family that has to be away for a year or two will let you live on their
farm if you keep the place in repair. These can be found advertised in the back
of various farming magazines and in the classified sections of newspapers, espe
cially the Sunday editions. Generally speaking, however, if you're interested in
a farm, you should be considering an outright purchase.First, you have to deter
mine in what part of the country you want to live in terms of the climate you pr
efer and how far away from the major cities you wish to locate. The least popula
ted states, such as Utah, Idaho, the Dakotas, Montana and the like, have the che
apest prices and the lowest tax rates. The more populated a state, and in turn,
the closer to a city, the higher the commercial value of the land.There are hund
reds of different types of farms, so the next set of questions you'll have to ra
ise concerns the type of farm activity you'll want to engage in. Cattle farms ar
e different than vegetable farms or orchards. Farms come in sizes: from half an
acre to ranches larger than the state of Connecticut. They will run in price fro
m $30 to $3000 an acre, with the most expensive being prime farmland in fertile
river valleys located close to an urban area. The further away from the city and
the further up a hill, the cheaper the land gets. It also gets woodier, rockier
and steeper, which means less tillable land.If you are talking of living in a f
arm house and maybe having a small garden and some livestock for your own use, w
ith perhaps a pond on the property, you are looking for what is called a recreat
ional farm. When you buy a recreational farm, naturally you are interested in th
e house, barn, well, fences, chicken-coop, corrals, woodsheds and other physical
structures on the property. Unless these are in unusually good condition or uni
que, they do not enter into the sale price as major factors. It is the land itse
lf that is bought and sold.Farmland is measured in acreage; an acre being slight
ly more than 43,560 square feet. The total area is measured in 40-acre plots. Th
us, if a farmer or a real estate agent says he has a plot of land down the road,
he means a 40-acre farm. Farms are generally measured this way, with an average
recreational farm being 160 acres in size or an area covering about 1/2 square
mile. A reasonable rate for recreational farmland 100 miles from a major city wi
th good water and a livable house would be about $50 per acre. For a 160-acre fa
rm, it would be $8,000, which is not an awful lot considering what you are getti
ng. For an overall view, get the free catalogues and brochures provided by the U
nited Farm Agency, 612 W. 47th St., Kansas City, Mo. 64112.Now that you have a r
ough idea of where and what type of farm you want, you can begin to get more spe
cific. Check out the classified section in the Sunday newspaper of the largest c
ity near your desired location. Get the phone book and call or write to real est
ate agencies in the vicinity. Unlike the city, where there is a sellers' market,
rural estate agents collect their fee from the seller of the property, so you w
on't have to worry about the agent's fee.When you have narrowed down the choices
, the next thing you'll want to look at is the plot book for the county. The plo
t book has all the farms in each township mapped out. lt also shows terrain vari
ations, type of housing on the land, location of rivers, roads and a host of oth
er pertinent information. Road accessibility, especially in the winter, is an im
portant factor. If the farms bordering the one you have selected are abandoned o
r not in full use, then for all intents and purposes, you have more land than yo
u are buying.After doing all this, you are prepared to go look at the farm itsel
f. Notice the condition of the auxiliary roads leading to the house. You'll want
an idea of what sections of the land are tillable. Make note of how many boulde
rs you'll have to clear to do some planting. Also note how many trees there are
and to what extent the brush has to be cut down. Be sure and have a good idea of
the insect problems you can expect. Mosquitoes or flies can bug the shit out of
you. Feel the soil where you plan to have a garden and see how rich it is. If t
here are fruit trees, check their condition. Taste the water. Find out if hunter
s or tourists come through the land. Examine the house. The most important thing
s are the basement and the roof. In the basement examine the beams for dry rot a
nd termites. See how long it will be before the roof must be replaced. Next chec
k the heating system, the electrical wiring and the plumbing. Then you'll want t
o know about services such as schools, snow plowing, telephones, fire department
and finally about your neighbors. If the house is beyond repair, you might stil
l want the farm, especially if you are good at carpentry. Cabins, A-Frames, dome
s and tepees are all cheaply constructed with little experience. Get the materia
ls from your nearest military installation.Finally, check out the secondary stru
ctures on the land to see how usable they are. If there is a pond, you'll want t
o see how deep it is for swimming. If there are streams, you'll want to know abo
ut the fishing possibilities; and if large wooded areas, the hunting.In negotiat
ing the final sales agreement, you should employ a lawyer. You'll also want to c
heck out the possibility of negotiating a bank loan for the farm. Don't forget t
hat you have to pay taxes on the land, so inquire from the previous owner or age
nt as to the tax bill. Usually, you can count on paying about $50 annually per 4
0-acre plot.Finally, check out the federal programs available in the area. If yo
u can learn the ins and outs of the government programs, you can rip off plenty.
The Feed-Grain Program of the Department of Agriculture pays you not to grow gr
ain. The Cotton Subsidy Program pays you not to grow cotton. Also look into the
Soil Bank Program of the United States Development Association and various Depar
tment of Forestry programs which pay you to plant trees. Between not planting co
tton and planting trees, you should be able to manage.
LIST OF COMMUNES
The most complete list of city and country communes is available for $1.00 from
Alternatives Foundation, Modern Utopian, 1526 Gravensteur Highway North, Sebasto
pol, California 95427. The phone is (707) 823-6168. The list is kept up to date.
For all communes, you must write in advance if you plan to visit. Almost every
commune will give you information about the local conditions and the problems th
ey face if you write them a letter. Here is a list of some you might like to wri
te to for more information. Avoid becoming a free-loader on your sisters and bro
thers.
¥ California
- ALTERNATIVES FOUNDATION-Box 1264, Berkeley, California 94709. (Dick Fa
irfield) Communal living, total sexuality, peak experience training centers. Ded
icated to the cybernated-tribal society.
- BHODAN CENTER OF INQUIRY-Sierra Route, Oakhurst, California 93644. Pho
ne (209) 683-4976.. (Charles Davis) Seminars on Human Community, IC development
on the land, founded 1934, 13 members. Trial period for new members. Visitors ch
eck in advance.
¥ Colorado
 - DROP CITY-Rt. 1, Box 125, Trinidad, Colorado 81082. Founded 1965. New
members must meet specific criteria. Anarchist, artist, dome houses.
¥ New Mexico
- LAMA FOUNDATION-Box 444, San Cristobal, N.M.
¥ New York
- CITY ISLAND COMMUNE-284 City Island Avenue, Bronx, NY. Visitors check
in advance. Revolutionary.
- ATLANTIS I-RFD 5, Box 22A, Saugerties, NY 12477. Visitors and new memb
ers welcome.
¥ Oregon
- FAMILY OF MYSTIC ARTS--Box 546, Sunny Valley, Oregon
¥ Pennsylvania
- TANGUY HOMESTEADS-West Chester, Pennsylvania. Suburban, non-sectarian,
co-op housing and community fellowship.
¥ Washington
- MAGIC MOUNTAIN-52nd and 19th Streets, Seattle, Washington. (c/o Miriam
Roder).
FREE EDUCATION
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tel
l you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the de
gree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are t
wo-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it. If t
here is stuff that you want to learn though, there is a way to get a college edu
cation absolutely free. Simply send away for the schedule of courses at the coll
ege of your choice. Make up the schedule you want and audit the classes. In smal
ler classes this might be a problem, but even then, if, the teacher is worth any
thing at all, he'll let you stay. In large classes, no one will ever object.If y
ou need books for a course, write to the publisher claiming you are a lecturer a
t some school and considering using their book in your course. They will always
send you free books.There are Free Universities springing up all over our new Na
tion. Anybody can teach any course. People sign up for the courses and sometimes
pay a token registration fee. This money is used to publish a catalogue and pay
the rent. If you're on welfare you don't have to pay. You can take as many or a
s few courses as you want. Classes are held everywhere: in the instructor's hous
e, in the park, on the beach, at one of the student's houses or in liberated bui
ldings. Free Universities offer courses ranging from Astrology to the Use of Fir
earms. The teaching is usually of excellent quality and you'll learn in a commun
ity-type atmosphere.
LIST OF FREE UNIVERSITIES
¥ Alternative University-69 W. 14th St., New York, NY 10011 (catalogue on
request)
¥ Baltimore Free U-c/o Harry, 233 E. 25th St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218
¥ Berkeley Free U-1703 Grove St., Berkeley, California 94709
¥ Bowling Green Free U-c/o Student Council, University of Bowling Green, B
owling Green Ohio 43402
¥ Colorado State Free U-Box 12-Fraisen, Colorado State College, Greeley, C
olorado 80631 ¥ Detroit Area Free U-Student Union, 4001 W. McNichols Rd., Detroi
t, Michigan 48221
¥ Detroit Area Free U-343 University Center, Wayne State University, Detro
it, Mich.
¥ Georgetown Free U-Loyola Bldg., 28, Georgetown University Washington D.C
. 20007
¥ Golden Gate Free U-2120 Market St., Rm. 206, San Francisco, California 9
4114
 ¥ Heliotrope-2201 Filbert, San Francisco, California 94118
¥ Illinois Free U-298A Illini Union, University of Illinois, Champaign, Il
linois 61820
¥ Kansas Free U-107 W. 7th St., Lawrence, Kansas 66044
¥ Knox College Free U-Galesbury, Illinois 60401
¥ Madison Free U-c/o P. Carroll, 1205 Shorewood Blvd., Madison, Wisconsin
53705
¥ Metropolitan State Free U-Associated Students, 1345 Banrock St., Denver,
Colorado 80204 ¥ Michigan State Free U-Associated Students, Student Servi
ce Bldg., Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan 48823
¥ Mid-Peninsula Free U-1060 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, California 94015
¥ Minnesota Free U-1817 S. 3rd St., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404
¥ Monterey Peninsula Free U-2120 Etna Place, Monterey, California
New Free U-Box ALL 303, Santa Barbara, California 93107
¥ Northwest Free U-Box 1255, Bellingham, Washington 98225
¥ Ohio-Wesleyan Free U-Box 47-Welsh Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Deleva
n, Ohio 43015 ¥ Pittsburgh Free U-4401 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1521
3Rutgers Free U-Rutgers College, Student Center, 1 Lincoln Ave., Newar
k, NJ 07102
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7. FREE MEDICAL CARE
Due to the efforts of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, the Studen
t Health Organization and other progressive elements among younger doctors and n
urses. Free People's Clinics have been happening in every major city. They usual
ly operate out of store fronts and are staffed with volunteer help. An average c
linic can handle fifty patients a day.If you've had an accident or have an acute
illness, even a bad cold, check into the emergency room of any hospital. Given
them a sob story complete with phony name and address. After treatment they pres
ent you with a slip and direct you to the cashier. Just walk on by, as the song
suggests. A good decoy is to ask for the washroom. After waiting there a few mom
ents, split. If you're caught sneaking out, tell them you ran out of the house w
ithout your wallet. Ask them to bill you at your phony address. This billing pro
cedure works in both hospital emergency rooms and clinics. You can keep going ba
ck for repeated visits up to three months before the cashier's office tells the
doctor about your fractured payments.You can get speedy medical advice and avoid
emergency room delays by calling the hospital, asking for the emergency unit an
d speaking directly to the doctor over the phone. Older doctors frown on this pr
ocedure since they cannot extort their usual exorbitant fee over the phone. Youn
ger ones generally do not share this hang-up.Cities usually have free clinics fo
r a variety of special ailments. Tuberculosis Clinics, Venereal Disease Clinics,
and Free Shot Clinics (yellow fever, polio, tetanus, etc.) are some of the more
common. A directory of these clinics and other free health services the local c
ommunity provides can be obtained by writing your Chamber of Commerce or local H
ealth Department.Most universities have clinics connected with their dental, opt
ometry or other specialized medical schools. If not for free, then certainly for
 very low rates, you can get dental work repaired, eyeglasses fitted and treatme
nt of other specific health needs.Free psychiatric treatment can often be gotten
at the out-patient department of any mental hospital. Admission into these hosp
itals is free, but a real bummer. Use them as a last resort only. Some cities ha
ve a suicide prevention center and if you are desperate and need help, call them
. Your best choice in a psychiatric emergency is to go to a large general hospit
al, find the emergency unit and ask to see the psychiatrist on duty.
BIRTH CONTROL CLINICS
Planned Parenthood and the Family Planning Association staff numerous fr
ee birth control clinics throughout the country. They provide such services as s
ex education, examinations, Pap smear and birth control information and devices.
The devices include pills, a diaphragm, or IUD (intra-uterine device) which the
y will insert. If you are unmarried and under 18, you might have to talk to a so
cial worker, but it's no sweat because anybody gets contraceptive devices that w
ants them. Call up and ask them to send you their booklets on the different meth
ods of birth control available.If you would rather go to a private doctor, try t
o find out from a friend the name of a hip gynecologist, who is sympathetic to t
he fact that you're low on bread. Otherwise one visit could cost $25.00 or more.
Before deciding on a contraceptive, you should be hip to some general informatio
n. There has been much research on the pill, and during the past 10 years it has
proven its effectiveness, if not is safety. The two most famous name brands are
Ortho-Novum and Envoid. They all require a doctor's prescription. Different typ
e pills are accompanied by slightly different instructions, so read the directio
ns carefully. In many women, the pills produce side effects such as weight incre
ase, dizziness or nausea. Sometimes the pill affects your vision and more often
your mood. Some women with specialized blood diseases are advised not to use the
m, but in general, women have little or no trouble. Different brand names have d
ifferent hormonal balances (progesterone-estrogen). If you get uncomfortable sid
e effects, insist that your doctor switch your brand. If you stop the pill metho
d for any reason and don't want to get pregnant, be very careful to use another
means right away.Another contraceptive device becoming more popular is the IUD,
or the loop. It is a small plastic or stainless steel irregularly-shaped spring
that the doctor inserts inside the opening of the uterus. The insertion is not w
ithout pain, but it's safe if done by a physician, and it's second only to the p
ill in prevention of pregnancy. Once it's in place, you can forget about it for
a few years or until you wish to get pregnant. Doctors are reluctant to prescrib
e them for women who have not borne children or had an abortion, because of the
intense pain that accompanies insertion. But if you can stand the pain associate
d with three to four uterine contractions, you should push the doctor for this m
ethod. Inserting it during the last day of your period will make it easier.The d
iaphragm is a round piece of flexible rubber about 2 inches in diameter with a h
ard rubber rim on the outside. It used to be inserted just before the sex act, b
ut hip doctors now recommend that it be worn continuously and taken out every fe
w days for washing and also during the menstrual period. It is most effective wh
en used with a sperm-killing jelly or cream. A doctor will fit you for a proper
size diaphragm.The next best method is the foams that you insert twenty minutes
before fucking. The best foams available are Delfen and Emko. They have the adva
ntage of being nonprescription items so you can rush into any drug store and pic
k up a dispenser when the spirit moves you. Follow the directions carefully. Unf
ortunately, these foams taste terrible and are not available in flavors. It just
shows you how far science has to go.Another device is the prophylactic, or rubb
er as it is called. This is the only device available to men. It is a thin rubbe
r sheath that fits over the penis. Because they are subject to breaking and slid
ing off, their effectiveness is not super great. If you are forced to use them,
the best available are lubricated sheepskins with a reservoir tip.The rhythm met
hod or Vatican roulette as it is called by hip Catholics, is a waste unless you
are ready to surround yourself with thermometers, graphs and charts. You also ha
ve to limit your fucking to prescribed days. Even with all these precautions, wo
men have often gotten pregnant using the rhythm method.The oldest and least effe
ctive method is simply for the male to pull out just before he comes. There are
billions of sperm cells in each ejaculation and only one is needed to fertilize
the woman's egg and cause a pregnancy. Most of the sperm is in the first squirt,
so you had better be quick if you employ this technique.If the woman misses her
period she shouldn't panic. It might be delayed because of emotional reasons. J
ust wait two weeks before going to a doctor or clinic for a pregnancy test. When
you go, be sure to bring your first morning urine specimen.
ABORTIONS
The best way to find out about abortions is to contact your local woman'
s liberation organization through your underground newspaper or radio station. S
ome Family Planning Clinics and even some liberal churches set up abortions, but
these might run as high as $700. Underground newspapers often have ads that rea
d "Any girl in trouble call - -," or something similar. The usual rate for an ab
ortion is about $500 and it's awful hard to bargain when you need one badly. Onl
y go to a physician who is practicing or might have just lost his license. Forge
t the stereotype image of these doctors as they are performing a vital service.
Friends who have had an abortion can usually recommend a good doctor and fill yo
u in on what's going to happen.Abortions are very minor operations if done corre
ctly. They can be done almost any time, but after three months, it's no longer s
o casual and more surgical skill is required. Start making plans as soon as you
find out. The sooner the better, in terms of the operation.Get a pregnancy test
at a clinic. If it is positive and you want an abortion, start that day to make
plans. If you get negative results from the test and still miss your period, hav
e a gynecologist perform an examination if you are still worried.If you cannot a
rrange an abortion through woman's liberation, Family Planning, a sympathetic cl
ergyman or a friend who has had one, search out a liberal hospital and talk to o
ne of their social workers. Almost all hospitals perform "therapeutic" abortions
. Tell a sob story about the desertion of your boy friend or that you take LSD e
very day or that defects run in your family. Act mentally disturbed. If you qual
ify, you can get an abortion that will be free under Medicaid or other welfare m
edical plans. The safest form of abortion is the vacuum-curettage method, but no
t all doctors are hip to it. It is safer and quicker with less chance of complic
ations than the old-fashioned scrape method.Many states have recently passed lib
eralized abortion laws, such as New York* (by far the most extensive), Hawaii an
d Maryland, due to the continuing pressure of radical women. The battle for abor
tion and certainly for free abortion is far from over even in the states with li
beral laws. They are far too expensive for the ten to twenty minute minor operat
ion involved and the red tape is horrendous. Free abortions must be look-on as a
fundamental right, not a sneaky, messy trauma.*There is a residence requirement
for New York but using a friend's New York address at the hospital will be good
enough. The procedure takes only a few days and costs between $200 and $500, de
pending on the place. The best advice is to call one of the New York Abortion Re
ferral Services or Birth Control Groups listed in the New York Directory section
.
DISEASES TREATED FREE
Syph and Clap (syphilis and gonorrhea) are two diseases that they are ea
sy to pick up. They come from balling. Anyone who claims they got it from sittin
g on a toilet seat must have a fondness for weird positions.Both men and women a
re subject to the diseases. Using a prophylactic usually will prevent the spread
ing of venereal disease, but you should really seek to have it cured. Syphilis u
sually begins with an infection which may look like a cold sore or pimple around
the sex organ. There is no pain associated with the lesions. Soon the sore disa
ppears even without treatment. This is often followed by a period of rashes on t
he body (especially the palms of the hands) and inflammation of the mouth and th
roat. These symptoms also disappear without treatment. It must be understood, ho
wever, that even if these symptoms disappear, the disease still remains if left
untreated. It can cause serious trouble such as heart disease, blindness, insani
ty and paralysis. Also, it can fuck up any kids you might produce and is easily
passed on to anyone you ball.Gonorrhea (clap) is more common than syphilis. Its
first signs are a discharge from your sex organ that is painful. Like syphilis,
it affects both men and women, but is often unnoticed in women. There is usually
itching and burning associated with the affected area. It can leave you sterile
if left untreated.Both these venereal diseases can be treated in a short time w
ith attention. Avail yourself of the free V.D. clinics in every town. Follow the
doctor's instructions to the letter and try to let the other people you've had
sexual contact with know you had VD.There are other fungus diseases that resembl
e syphilis or gonorrhea, but are relatively harmless. Check out every infection
in your crotch area, especially those with open sores or an unusual discharge an
d you'll be safe.Crabs are not harmful, but they can make you scratch your crotc
h for hours on end. They are also highly transmittable by balling. Actually they
are a form of body lice and easy to cure. Go to your local druggist and ask him
for the best remedy available. He'll give you one of several lotions and instru
ctions for proper use. We recommend Kwell.A common disease in the hip community
is hepatitis. There are two kinds. One you get from sticking dirty needles in yo
ur arm (serum hepatitis) and the other more common strain from eating infected f
ood or having intimate contact with an infected carrier (infectious hepatitis).
The symptoms for both are identical; yellowish skin and eyes, dark piss and ligh
t crap, loss of appetite and total listlessness. Hep is a very dangerous disease
that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extr
emely permanent. It should be treated by a doctor, often in a hospital.
FREE COMMUNICATION
If you don't like the news, why not go out and make your own? Creating f
ree media depends to a large extent on your imagination and ability to follow th
rough on ideas. The average Amerikan is exposed to over 1,600 commercials each d
ay. Billboards, glossy ads and television spots make up much of the word environ
ment they live in. To crack through the word mush means creating new forms of fr
ee communication. Advertisements for revolution are important in helping to educ
ate and mold the milieu of people you wish to win over.Guerrilla theater events
are always good news items and if done right, people will remember them forever.
Throwing out money at the Stock Exchange or dumping soot on executives at Con E
dison or blowing up the policeman statue in Chicago immediately conveys an easil
y understood message by using the technique of creative disruption. Recently to
dramatize the illegal invasion of Cambodia, 400 Yippies stormed across the Canad
ian border in an invasion of the United States. They threw paint on store window
s and physically attacked residents of Blair, Washington. A group of Vietnam vet
erans marched in battle gear from Trenton to Valley Forge. Along the way they pe
rformed mock attacks on civilians the way they were trained to do in Southeast A
sia.Dying all the outdoor fountains red and then sending a message to the newspa
per explaining why you did it, dramatizes the idea that blood is being shed need
lessly in imperialist wars. A special metallic bonding glue available from Eastm
an-Kodak will form a permanent bond in only 45 seconds. Gluing up locks of all t
he office buildings in your town is a great way to dramatize the fact that our b
rothers and sisters are being jailed all the time. Then, of course, there are al
ways explosives which dramatically make your point and then some.
PRESS CONFERENCES
Another way of using the news to advertise the revolution and make propa
ganda is to call a press, conference. Get an appropriate place that has some rel
ationship to the content of your message. Send out announcements to as many memb
ers of the press as you can. If you do not have a press list, you can make one u
p by looking through the Yellow Pages under Newspapers, Radio Stations, Televisi
on Stations, Magazines and Wire Services. Check out your list with other groups
and pick up names of reporters who attend movement press conferences. Address a
special invitation to them as well as one to their newspaper. Address the announ
cements to "City Desk" or "'News Department." Schedule the press conference for
about 11:00 A.M. as this allows the reporters to file the story in time for the
evening newscast or papers. On the day of the scheduled conference, call the imp
ortant city desks or reporters about 9:00 A.M. and remind them to come.Everythin
g about a successful press conference must be dramatic, from the announcements a
nd phone calls to the statements themselves. Nothing creates a worse image than
four or five men in business suits sitting behind a table and talking in a calm
manner at a fashionable hotel. Constantly seek to have every detail of the press
conference differ in style as well as content from the conferences of people in
power. Make use of music and visual effects. Don't stiffen up before the press.
Make the statement as short and to the point as possible. Don't read from notes
, look directly into the camera. The usual television spot is one minute and twe
nty seconds. The cameras start buzzing on your opening statement and often run o
ut of film before you finish. So make it brief and action packed. The question p
eriod should be even more dramatic. Use the questioner's first name when answeri
ng a question. This adds an air of informality and networks are more apt to use
an answer directed personally to one of their newsmen. Express your emotional fe
elings. Be funny, get angry, be sad or ecstatic. If you cannot convey that you a
re deeply excited or troubled or outraged about what you are saying, how do you
expect it of others who are watching a little image box in their living room? Re
member, you are advertising a new way of life to people. Watch TV commercials. S
ee how they are able to convey everything they need to be effective in such a sh
ort time and limited space. At the same tune you're mocking the shit they are pu
shing, steal their techniques.At rock concerts, during intermission or at the en
d of the performance, fight your way to the stage.COMMUNICATIONAnnounce that if
the electricity is cut off the walls will be torn down. This galvanizes the audi
ence and makes the owners of the hall the villains if they fuck around. Lay out
a short exciting rap on what's coming down. Focus on a call around one action. S
ometimes it might be good to engage rock groups in dialogues about their commitm
ent to the revolution. Interrupting the concert is frowned upon since it is only
spitting in the faces of the people you are trying to reach. Use the Culture as
ocean to swim in. Treat it with care.Sandwich boards and hand-carried signs are
effective advertisements. You can stand on a busy corner and hold up a sign say
ing "Apartment Needed," "Free Angela," "Smash the State" or other slogans. They
can be written on dollar bills, envelopes that are being mailed and other items
that are passed from person to person.Take a flashlight with a large face to mov
ie theaters and other dark public gathering places. Cut the word "STRIKE" or "RE
VOLT" or "YIPPIE" out of dark cellophane. Paste the stencil over the flashlight,
thus allowing you to project the word on a distant wall.There are a number of a
ll night call-in shows that have a huge audience. If you call with what the mod
erator considers "exciting controversy," he may give you a special number so you
won't have to compete in the switchboard roller-derby. It often can take hours
before you get through to these shows. Here's a trick that will help you out if
the switchboard is jammed. The call-in shows have a series of hones so that when
one is busy the next will take the call. Usually the numbers run in sequence. S
ay a station gives out PL 5-8640, as the number to call. That means it also uses
PL 5-8641, PL 5-8642 and so on. If you get a busy signal, hang up and try calli
ng PL S-8647 say. This trick works in a variety of situations where you wa
nt to get a call through a busy switchboard. Remember it for airline and bus inf
ormation.
WALL PAINTING
One of the best forms of free communication is painting messages on a bl
ank wall. The message must be short and bold. You want to be able to paint it on
before the pigs come and yet have it large enough so that people can see it at
a distance. Cans of spray paint that you can pick up at any hardware store work
best. Pick spots that have lot of traffic. Exclamation points are good for empha
sis. If you are writing the same message, make a stencil. You can make a stencil
that says WAR and spray it on with white paint under the word "STOP" on stop si
gns. You can stencil a five-pointed star and using yellow paint, spray it on the
dividing line between the red and blue on all post office boxes. This simulates
the flag of the National Liberation Front of Vietnam. You can stencil a marijua
na leaf and using green paint, spray it over cigarette and whisky billboards on
buses and subways. The women's liberation sign with red paint is good for sexist
ads. Sometimes you will wish to exhibit great daring in your choice of locati
ons. When the Vietnamese hero Nguyen Van Troi was executed, the Viet Cong put up
a poster the next day on the exact spot inside the highest security prison in t
he country.Wall postering allows you to get more information before the public t
han a quickly scribbled slogan. Make sure the surface is smooth or finely porous
. Smear the back of the poster with condensed milk, spread on with a brush, spon
ge, rag or your hands. Condensed milk dries very fast and hard. Also smear some
on the front once the poster is up to give protection against the weather and bu
sy fingers that like to pull at corners. Wallpaper pastes also work quickly and
efficiently. It's best to work both painting and postering at night with a look-
out. This way you can work the best spots without being harassed by the pig patr
ol, which is usually unappreciative of Great Art.
USE OF THE FLAG
The generally agreed upon flag of our nation is black with a red, five p
ointed star behind a green marijuana leaf in the center. It is used by groups th
at understand the correct use of culture and symbolism in a revolutionary strugg
le. When displayed, it immediately increases the feelings of solidarity between
our brothers and sisters. High school kids have had great fights over which flag
to salute in school. A sign of any liberated zone is the flag being flown. Rock
concerts and festivals have their generally apolitical character instantly chan
ged when the flag is displayed. The political theoreticians who do not recognize
the flag and the importance of the culture it represents are ostriches who are
ignorant of basic human nature. Throughout history people have fought for religi
on, life-style, land, a flag (nation), because they were ordered to, for fortune
, because they were attacked or for the hell of it. If you don't think the flag
is important, ask the hardhats.
RADIO
Want to construct your own neighborhood radio station? You can get a car
rier-current transmitter designed by a group of brothers and sisters called Radi
o Free People. No FCC license is required for the range is less than 1/2 mile. T
he small transistorized units plug into any wall outlet. Write Radio Free People
, 133 Mercer St., New York, New York 10012 for more details. For further informa
tion see the chapter on Guerrilla Broadcasting later in the book.
FREE TELEPHONES
Ripping off the phone company is so common that Bell Telephone has a spe
cial security division that tries to stay just a little ahead of the average fre
e-loader. Many great devices like the coat hanger release switch have been scrap
ped because of changes in the phone box. Even the credit card fake-out is doomed
to oblivion as the company switches to more computerized techniques. ln our opi
nion, as long as there is a phone company, and as long as there are outlaws, nob
ody need ever pay for a call. In 1969 alone the phone company estimated that ove
r 10 million dollars worth of free calls were placed from New York City. Nothing
, however, compares with the rip-off of the people by the phone company. In that
same year, American Telephone and Telegraph made a profit of 8.6 billion dollar
s! AT&T, like all public utilities, passes itself off as a service owned by the
people, while in actuality nothing could be further from the truth. Only a small
percentage of the public owns stock in these companies and a tiny elite clique
makes all the policy decisions. Ripping-off the phone company is an act of revol
utionary love, so help spread the word.
PAY PHONES
You can make a local 10 cent call for 2 cents by spitting on the pennies
and dropping them in the nickel slot. As soon as they are about to hit the trig
ger mechanism, bang the coin-return button. Another way is to spin the pennies c
ounter-clockwise into the nickel slot. Hold the penny in the slot with your fing
er and snap it spinning with a key or other flat object. Both systems take a cer
tain knack, but once you've perfected the technique, you'll always have it in yo
ur survival kit.If two cents is too much, how about a call for 1 penny? Cut a 1/
4 strip off the telephone book cover. Insert the cardboard strip into the dime s
lot as far as it will go. Drop a penny in the nickel slot until it catches in th
e mechanism (spinning will help). Then slowly pull the strip out until you hear
the dial tone.A number 14 brass washer with a small piece of scotch tape over on
e side of the hole will not only get a free call, but works in about any vending
machine that takes dimes. You can get a box of thousands for about a dollar at
any hardware store. You should always have a box around for phones, laundromats,
parking meters and drink machines.Bend a bobby pin after removing the plastic f
rom the tips and jab it down into the transmitter (mouthpiece). When it presses
against the metal diaphragm, rub it on a metal wall or pipe to ground it. When y
ou've made contact you'll hear the dial tone. If the phone uses old-fashioned ru
bber black tubing to enclose the wires running from the headset to the box, you
can insert a metal tack through the tubing, wiggle it around a little until it m
akes contact with the bare wires and touch the tack to a nearby metal object for
grounding.Put a dime in the phone, dial the operator and tell her you have ten
cents credit. She'll return your dime and get your call for free. If she asks wh
y, say you made a call on another pay phone, lost the money, and the operator to
ld you to switch phones and call the credit operator.This same method works for
long distance calls. Call the operator and find out the rate for your call. Hang
up and call another operator telling her you just dialed San Francisco direct,
got a wrong number and lost $.95 or whatever it is. She will get your call free
of charge.If there are two pay phones next to each other, you can call long dist
ance on one and put the coins in the other. When the operator cuts in and asks y
ou to deposit money, drop the coins into the one you are not using, but hold the
receiver up to the slots so the operator can hear the bells ring. When you've f
inished, you can simply press the return button on the phone with the coins in i
t and out they come. If you have a good tape recorder you can record the sounds
of a quarter, dime and nickel going into a pay phone and play them for the opera
tor in various combinations when she asks for the money. Turn the volume up as l
oud as you can get it.You can make a long distance call and charge it to a phone
number. Simply tell the operator you want to bill the call to your home phone b
ecause you don't have the correct change. Tell her there is no one there now to
verify the call, but you will be home in an hour and she can call you then if th
ere is any question. Make sure the exchange goes with the area you say it does.A
lways have a number of made-up credit card numbers. The code letter for 1970 is
S, then seven digits of the phone number and a three digit district number (not
the same as area code). The district number should be under 599. Example: S-573-
2100-421 or S-537-3402-035. Look up the phone numbers for your area by simply re
questing a credit card for your home phone which is very easy to get and then us
ing the last three numbers with another phone number. Usually making up exotic n
umbers from far away places will work quite well as it would be impossible for a
n operator to spot a phony number in the short time she has to check her list.We
advise against making phony credit card calls on a home phone. We have seen a g
adget that you install between the wall socket and the cord which not only allow
s you to receive all the calls you want for free, but eliminates the most common
form of electronic bugging. They are being manufactured and sold for fifty doll
ars by a disgruntled telephone engineer in Massachusetts. Unfortunately you are
going to have to find him on your own or duplicate his efforts, for he has sworn
us to secrecy. If someone does, however, offer you such a device, it probably d
oes work. Test it by installing it and having someone call you from a pay phone.
If it's working, the person should get their dime back at the end of the call.A
ctually if you know the slightest information about wiring, you can have your p
resent phone disconnected on the excuse that you'll be leaving town for a few mo
nths and then connect the wires into the main trunk lines on your own. Extension
s can easily be attached to your main line without the phone company knowing abo
ut it.You can make all the free long distance calls you want by calling your par
ty collect at a pay phone. Just have your friend go to a prearranged phone booth
at a prearranged time. This can be done on the spot by having the friend call y
ou person to person. Say you're not in, but ask for the number calling you since
you'll be "back" in five minutes. Once you get the number simply hang up, wait
a moment and call back your friend collect. The call has to be out of the state
to work, since operators are familiar with the special extension numbers assigne
d to pay phones for her area and possibly for nearby areas as well. If she asks
you if it is a pay phone say no. If she finds out during the call (which rarely
happens) and informs you of this, simply say you didn't expect the party to have
a pay phone in his house and accept the charges. We have never heard of this ha
ppening though. The trick of calling person-to-person collect should always be u
sed when calling long distance on home-to-home phones also. You can hear the voi
ce of your friend saying that he'll be back in a few minutes. Simply hang up, wa
it a moment and call station to station, thereby getting a person-to-person call
without the extra charges which can be considerable on a long call during busin
ess hours.If you plan to stay at your present address for only a few more months
, stop paying the bill and call like crazy. After a month you get the regular bi
ll which you avoid paying. Another month goes by and the next bill comes with la
st month's balance added to it. Shortly thereafter you get a note advising you t
hat your service will be terminated in ten days if you don't pay the bill. Wait
a few days and send them a five or ten dollar money order with a note saying you
've had an accident and are pressed for funds because of large medical bills, bu
t you'll send them the balance as soon as you are up and around again. That will
hold them for another month. In all, you can stretch it out for four or five mo
nths with a variety of excuses and small payments. This also works with the gas
and electric companies and with any department stores you conned into letting yo
u charge.You can get the service deposit reduced to half of the normal rate if y
ou are a student or have other special qualifications. Surprisingly, these rates
and discounts vary from area to area, so check around before you go into the bu
siness office for your phone. There is an incredible 50 cents charge per month f
or not having your phone listed. If you want an unlisted phone, you can avoid th
is fee by having the phone listed in a fictitious name, even if the bill is sent
to you. Just say you want your roommate's name listed instead of your own.
FREE PLAY
MOVIES AND CONCERTS
There are many ways to sneak into theaters, concerts, stadiums and other
entertainment houses. All these places have numerous fire exits with push-bar d
oors that open easily from the inside. Arrive early with a group of friends, aft
er casing the joint and selecting the most convenient exit. Pay for one person t
o get in. When he does he simply opens the designated exit door when the ushers
are out of the area and everyone rushes inside.For theatrical chains in large ci
ties, call their home office and ask to speak to the vice-president in charge of
publicity, sales, or personnel. Ask what his name is so you'll know who you're
talking to. When you get the information you want, hang up. Now you have the nam
e of a high official in the company. Compile a short list of officials in the va
rious film, theater and sporting event companies. Next all the various theaters
and do the same thing for the theater managers. Once you have the two lists you
are ready to proceed. Call the theater you want to attend. When someone answers
say you're Mr. __________ from the home office calling Mr. __________ (manager's
name) and you'd like to have two passes O.K'd for two important people from out
of town. Invariably she'll just ask their names or tell them to mention your na
me at the box office. Not only will you get in free, but you can avoid waiting i
n line with this fake-out.In Los Angeles and New York, the studios hold pre-rele
ase screenings for all movies. If you know roughly when a movie is about to come
out, call the publicity department of the studio producing the film and say you
're the critic for a newspaper or magazine (give the name) and ask them when you
can screen the film. They'll give you the time and place of various screenings.
When you go, ask them to put you on their list and you'll get notices of all fu
ture screenings.One of our favorite ways to sneak into a theater with continuous
ly running shows is the following. Arrive just as the show is emptying out and j
oin the line leaving the theater. Exclaiming, "Oh, my gosh!" you slap your foreh
ead, turn around and return, tell the usher you left your hat, pocketbook, etc.
inside. Once you're inside the theater, just swipe some popcorn and wait for the
next show.
RECORDS AND BOOKS
If you have access to a few addresses, you can get all kinds of records
and books from clubs on introductory offers. Since the cards you mail back are n
ot signed there is no legal way you can be held for the bill. You get all sorts
of threatening mail, which, by the way, also comes free.If you have a friend who
is a member of a record club, ask him to submit your name as a free member. He
gets 4 free records for getting you signed up. A soon as you get the letter sayi
ng how lucky you are to be a member, quit. Your friend's free records have alrea
dy been shipped. We used to have at least 10 different names and addresses worki
ng on all the record and book companies. Every other day we would ride around co
llecting the big packages. To cap it off, we opened a credit account at a large
department store and used to return most of the records and books to the store s
aying that they were gifts and we wanted something else. Since we had an account
at the store, they always took the merchandise and gave credit for future purch
ases.You can always use the public libraries. Find out when they do their yearly
housecleaning. Every library discards thousands of books on this day. Just show
up and ask if you can take some.Almost anything you might want to know from pla
ns for constructing a sundial to a complete blueprint for building a house may b
e obtained free from the Government Printing Office. Write: to Superintendent of
Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. 20402. Most publication
are free. Those that are not are dirt cheap. Ask to be put on the list to receiv
e the free biweekly list of Selected U.S. Government Publications.One of the bes
t ways to receive records and books free is to invest twenty dollars and print u
p some stationery with an artistic logo for some non-existent publication. Write
to all the public relations departments of record companies, publishing houses,
and movie studios. Say you are a newspaper with a large youth readership and ha
ve regular reviews of books, or records, or movies, and would like to be placed
on their mailing list. Say that you would be glad to send them any reviews of th
eir records that appear in the paper. That adds a note of authenticity to the le
tter. After a month or so you'll be receiving more records and books than you ca
n use.If you really want a book badly enough, follow the title of this one-Dig!
FREE MONEY
No book on survival should fail to give you some good tips on how to rip
-off bread. Really horning in on this chapter will put you on Free-loader Street
life, 'cause with all the money in Amerika, the only thing you'll have trouble
getting is poor.
WELFARE
It's easy to get on welfare that anyone who is broke and doesn't have a
regular relief check coming in is nothing but a goddamn lazy bum! Each state has
a different set up. The racist penny-pinchers of Mississippi dole out only $8.0
0 a month. New York dishes ont the most with monthly payments up to $120.00. The
Amerikan Public Welfare Association publishes a book called The Public Welfare
Directory with information on exactly what each welfare agency provides and how
you go about qualifying. You can read the directory at any public library to fin
d out all you can about how your local office operates.When you've discovered ev
erything you need to know, head on down to the Welfare Department in your grubbi
est clothes. Not sleeping the night before helps. The receptionist will assign a
n "intaker" to interview you. After a long wait, you'll be directed to a desk. T
he intaker raps to you for a while, generally showing sympathy for your plight a
nd turns you over to the caseworker who will make the final and ultimate assessm
ent.Have your heaviest story ready to ooze out. If you have no physical disabili
ties, lay down a "mentally deranged" rap. Getting medical papers saying you have
any long-term illness or defect helps a lot. Tell the caseworker you get dizzy
spells on the job and faint in the street. Keep bobbing your head, yawning, or s
cratching. Tell him that you have tried to commit suicide recently because you j
ust can't make it in a world that has forgotten how to love. Don't lay it on too
obviously. Wait till he "pries" some of the details from you. This makes the st
ory even more convincing. Many welfare workers are young and hip. The image you
are working on is that of a warm, sensitive kid victimized by brutal parents and
a cold ruthless society. Tell them you held off coming for months because you w
anted to maintain some self-respect even though have been walking the streets br
oke and hungry. If you are a woman tell him you were recently raped. In sexist A
merika, this will probably be true.After about an hour or so of this soap-opera
stuff, you'll be ready to get your first check. From then on it's a monthly chec
k, complete medical care for free and all sorts of other outasight benefits. Occ
asionally the caseworker will drop by your pad or ask you down to the office to
see how you're coming along, but with your condition, things don't look so good.
Don't abandon hope though. Hope always helps fill in a caseworker's report.The
real trick is to parlay welfare payments in a few different states. Work out an
exchange system with a buddy and mail each other the checks when they come in. I
f the caseworker comes by, your roommate can say you went to find a job or enrol
led in a class. We know cats who have parlayed welfare payments up to six hundre
d dollars a month.
UNEMPLOYMENT
Every outlaw should learn everything there is to know about the rules go
verning unemployment insurance. As in the case of welfare rules, eligibility, an
d the size of payments differ from state to state. In New York, you are eligible
for payments equivalent to half your weekly salary before taxes up to $65 per w
eek, on the condition that you have worked for a minimum of twenty weeks during
the year. Payments are somewhat lower in most other states. In order to collect,
you must show you are actively searching for a job and keep a record of employe
rs you contact. This can easily be fudged. Every time you're questioned about it
, mention one or two companies. If your hair is long, you'll have no problem. Ju
st say they won't hire you until you get a haircut. When this is the case, the u
nemployment office cannot cut off your payments or your hair. They also cannot m
ake you accept a job you do not want. Tell them any job offer you get is not cha
llenging enough for your talents. Unemployment can be collected for six months b
efore payments are terminated. Twenty more weeks of slavery and you can go back
to maintaining your dignity in the unemployment line. These job insurance paymen
ts cannot be taxed and since you are working so few weeks out of each year, your
taxable income is at a minimum. Read all the fine print for tax form 1040 and d
iscover all the deductible loopholes available to you. You should wind up paying
no taxes at all or having all the taxes that were deducted from your pay reimbu
rsed. Never turn over to the pig government any funds you can rip off. Remember,
it isn't your government, so why submit to its taxation if you feel you do not
have representation.
PANHANDLING
The practice of going up to folks and bumming money is a basic hustling
art. If you are successful at panhandling, you'll be able to master all the skil
ls in the book and then some. To be good at it requires a complete knowledge of
what motivates people. Even if we don't need the bread, we panhandle on the stre
ets in the same way doctors go back to medical school. It helps us stay in shape
. Panhandling is illegal throughout Pig Empire, but it's one of those laws that
is rarely enforced unless they want to "clean the area" of hippies. If you're in
a strange locale, ask a fellow panhandler what the best places to work are with
out risking a bust. Do it in front of supermarkets, theaters, sporting events, h
ip dress shops and restaurants. College cafeterias are very good hunting grounds
.When you're hustling, be assertive. Don't lean against the wall with your palm
out mumbling "Spare some change?" Go up to people and stand directly in front of
them so they have to look you in the eye and say no. Bum from guys with dates.
Bum from motherly looking types. After a while you'll get a sense of the type of
people you get results with.Theater can be real handy. The best actors get the
most bread. Devising a street theater skit can help. A good prop is a charity ca
nister. You can get them by going to the offices of a mainstream charity and sig
ning up as a collector. Don't feel bad about ripping them off. Charities are the
biggest swindle around. 80% or more of the funds raised by honky charities go t
o the organization itself. New fancy cars for the Red Cross, inflated salaries f
or the executives of the Cancer Fund, tax write-offs for Jerry Lewis. You get th
e picture. A good way to work this and keep your karma in shape is to turn over
half to a revolutionary groups such as your local underground. Remember, fugitiv
es from injustice depend on you to survive. Be a responsible member of our natio
n. Support the only war we have going!
RIP-OFFS
If you are closing out your checking account, overdraw your account by $
10.00. The bank won't bother chasing you down for a lousy 10 bucks.Call the tele
phone operator from time to time and tell her you lost some change in a pay phon
e. They will mail you the cash.You can get $150 to $600 in advance by willing yo
ur body to a University medical school. They have you sign a lot of papers and p
ut a tattoo on your foot. You can get the tattoo removed and sell your body to t
he folks across the street. The universities can be ripped off by enrolling, app
lying for a loan and bugging out after the loan comes through. This is a lot eas
ier than you might imagine and you can hit them for up to $2,500 with a good eno
ugh story.Put a number 14 brass washer in a newspaper vending machine and take o
ut all the papers. Stand around the corner or go into the local bar and sell the
m. You often get tipped. Don't do this with underground papers. Remember they're
your brothers and sisters.The airlines will give you $250 for each piece of lug
gage you lose when flying. The following is a good way to lose your luggage. Whe
n you get off a plane, have a friend meet you at the gate. Give him your luggage
claim stubs and arrange to meet at a washroom or restaurant. Your friend picks
up the bags and takes them out of the baggage room. Before he leaves the airport
, he turns over the stubs to you at your prearranged rendezvous. You casually wa
nder over to the baggage department and search for your elusive luggage. When al
l the baggage has been claimed, file a complaint with the lost and found departm
ent. They'll have you fill out a form, explain that it probably got misplaced on
another carrier and promise to send it to you as soon as it is located. In a mo
nth you'll receive a check for $250 per bag. Enjoy your flight.
THE INTERNATIONAL YIPPIE CURRENCY EXCHANGE
Every time you drop a coin into a slot, you are losing money needlessly.
There is at least one foreign coin that is the same size or close enough that w
ill do the trick for less than a penny. The following are some of the foreign cu
rrencies that will get you that Coke, call or subway ride.
Quarter Size Coins
¥ URUGUAYAN 10 CENTISIMO PIECE
- works in many soda and candy machines, older telephones (3 slot types)
, toll machines, laundromats, parking meters, stamp machines, and restroo
m novelty machines. Works also in some electric cancerette machines but
not most mechanical machines.
¥ DANISH 5 ORE PIECE
- works in 3 slot telephones, toll machines, laundromats, automats, some
stamp machines, most novelty machines, and the Boston Subway. Does not w
ork in soda or cancerette machines.
¥ PERUVIAN 20 CENTAVO PIECES
- works in new (one slot) telephone and some electric cancerette machine
s, but does not work as many places in the Uruguay, Danish and Peruvian
coins.
¥ ICELANDIC 5 AURAN PIECE
- most effective quarter in the world, even works in change machines. Un
fortunately, this coin is practically impossible to get outside of Iceland
and even there, it is becoming difficult since the government is attemp
ting to remove it from circulation.
Dime Size Coins
¥ MALAYSIAN PENNY
 - generally works in all dime slots, including old and new telephones, c
andy machines, soda machines, electric machines, stamp machines, parking meters
, photocopy machines, and pay toilets. Does not work in some newer stamp d
ispensers, and some mechanical cancerette machines.
¥ TRINIDAD PENNY
- generally works the same as Malaysian Penny. New York Subway Tokens
¥ DANISH 25 ORE PIECE
- works in 95% of all subway turnstiles. A very safe coin to use since i
t will not jam the turnstile. It is 5/l000th of an inch bigger than a token.
¥ PORTUGUESE 50 CENTAVO PIECE
- the average Portuguese Centavo Piece is 2/1000th of an inch smaller th
an a token. ¥ JAMAICAN HALF PENNY, BAHAMA PENNY and AUSTRALIAN SCHILLI
NG
- these coins are 12/l000th to 15/1000th of an inch smaller than token.
They work in about 80% of all turnstiles. We have also had good success with
FRENCH l FRANC PIECE (WWII issue), SPANISH l0 CENTAVO PIECE NICARAGUAN 25 CEN
TAVO PIECE.
All of the coins listed have a currency value of a few cents, wit
h most less than one penny. Foreign coins work more regularly than slugs and are
non-magnetic, hence cannot be detected by "slug detector machines." Also unlike
slugs, although they are illegal to use in machines, they are perfectly legal t
o possess and exchange.Large coin dealers and currency exchanges are generally u
ptight about handling cheap foreign coins in quantity since they don't make much
profit and are subject to certain pressures in selling coins that are the same
sizeas Amerikan coins or tokens.People planning trips to European or South Ameri
can countries should bring back rolls of coins as souvenirs or for use in "coin
jewelry."If you do not plan to travel, a small coin store which is cool about se
lling to the public is located on the Lower East Side at 191 East Third Street,
New York City. When their phone works, the number is 475-9897.Washers are the mo
st popular types of slugs. You can go to any hardware store and match them up wi
th various coins. Sometimes you might have to put a small piece of scotch tape o
ver one side of the hole to make it more effective. Each washer is identified by
its material and number, i.e. No. 14 brass washer with scotch tape on one side
is a perfect dime. When you get the ones you want, you can buy thousands for nex
t to nothing (especially at industrial supply stores) and pass them out to our f
riends.Xerox copies of both sides of a dollar bill, carefully glued together, wo
rk in most machines that give you change for a dollar. Excuse us, there is a kno
ck at the door. . .Fancy that! It's the Treasury Department. Wonder what they wa
nt?
FREE DOPE
BUYING, SELLING AND GIVING IT AWAY
As you probably know, most dope is illegal, therefore some risks are alw
ays involved in buying and selling. "Eternal vigilance and constant mobility are
the passwords of survival," said Che Guevara, and nowhere do they apply more th
an in the world of dope. If you ever have the slightest doubt about the person w
ith whom you're dealing-DON'T.BuyingIn the purchasing of dope, arrests are not a
problem unless you're the fall guy for a bust on the dealer. The major hazard i
s getting burned. Buy from a friend or a reputable dealer. If you have to do bus
iness with a stranger, be extra careful. Never front money. One of the burn arti
st's tricks is to take your money, tell you to wait and split with your dough. T
here are various side show gimmicks each burn artist works. The most common is t
o ask you to walk with them a few blocks and then stop in front of an apartment
building. He then tells you the dope is upstairs and asks you to hand over the m
oney in advance. He explains that his partner is the real uptight 'cause they we
re raided once and won't let anybody in the pad. He takes your dough and disappe
ars inside the building. Out the back door or up to the roof and into his getawa
y helicopter. You are left on the sidewalk with anxious eyes and that "can this
really be happening to me" feeling.Another burn method is to substitute oregano,
parsley or catnip for pot, camel shit for hash, saccharin or plain pills for ac
id. If you got burned for heroin or speed, you're better off being taken, becaus
e these are body-fuck drugs that can mess you up badly. The people that deal the
m are total pigs and should be regarded as such. When you're buying from strang
ers, you have a right to sample the merchandise free unless it's coke. Check the
weight of grass with a small pocket scale. Feel the texture and check out how w
ell it has been cleaned of seeds and twigs. Smoke a joint that is rolled from th
e stuff you get. Don't accept the dealer's sample that he pulled out of his pock
et. When you are buying a large amount of acid, pick a sample. You should never
buy acid from a stranger as it is too easy a burn.If you buy cocaine, bring alon
g a black light. Only the imparities glow under its fluorescence, thus giving yo
u an idea of the quality of the coke. Make sure it's the real thing. Sniffing co
ke can perforate your nasal passages, so be super moderate. Too much will kill y
ou. A little bit goes a long way.SellingDealing, although dangerous, is a tax-fr
ee way of surviving even though it borders on work. The best way to start is to
save up a little bread and buy a larger quantity than you usually get. Then deal
out smaller amounts to your friends. The fewer strangers you deal with, the saf
er you are. The price of dope varies with the amount of stuff on the market in y
our area, the heat the narks are bringing down and the connections you have. A r
ough scale, say, for pot is $20 an ounce, $125 a pound and $230 a kilo (2.2 poun
ds). The price per ounce decreases depending on the amount you get. It's true yo
u make more profit selling by the ounces, but the hassle is greater and the more
contacts you must make increases the risk. Screwing your customers will prove t
o be bad karma (unless you consider dying groovy), so stick to honest dealing. N
ever deal from your pad and avoid keeping your stash there. Get into searching o
ut the best markets which are generally in California, given its close proximity
to good ol' Mexico. Kansas is a big distribution center for Mexican grass, too.
You can ship the stuff (safer than carrying) via air freight anywhere in the co
untry for about $30 a trunk. Keep the sending and receiving end looking straight
. We have one friend who wears a priest's outfit to ship and receive dope. In fa
ct, every time we see nuns or priests on the street, we assume they're outlaws j
ust on their way to the next deal or bombing. For all we know, the church actual
ly is nothing but a huge dope ring in drag. Anybody gotten high off communion wa
fers lately?When you talk about deals on the phone, be cool. Make references to
theater tickets or subscriptions. Don't keep extensive notes on your activities
and contacts. Use code names where you can. Never deal with two other people pre
sent. Only you and the buyer should be in the immediate vicinity. Narks make bus
ts in pairs so one can be the arresting officer and the other can be a court wit
ness. Dealing is a paradox of unloading a good amount of shit but not trying to
move too fast; of making ne contacts but being careful of strangers; of dealing
high quality and low prices; and of being simultaneously bold and cautious. If y
ou get nabbed, get the best lawyer who specializes in dope busts. First offender
s rarely end up serving time, but it's a different story for repeaters. Know how
punitive the courts are and which judges and prosecutors can be bought off. Nev
er deal in the month before an election. For complete information on how to avoi
d getting busted and what to do if busted, read The Drug Bust (listed in appendi
x).Giving It AwayGiving dope away can be a real mind-blower. Every dealer should
submit to voluntary taxation by the new Nation. If you are a conscientious deal
er, you should be willing and eager to give a good hunk of your stash away at sp
ecial events or to groups into free distribution. You should also be able to giv
e bread to bust trusts set up to bail out heads unable to get up the ransom mone
y the whisky lush courts demand. Many groups have done huge mailings of joints t
o all sorts of people. A group in New York mailed 30,000 to people in the phone
book on one Valentine's Day. A group in Los Angeles placed over 2,000 joints in
library books and then advised kids to smoke a book during National Library Week
. Be cool about even giving stuff away since that counts as dealing in most stat
es. John Sinclair, Chairman of the White Panther Party, is serving 9¸ to 10 years
for giving away two joints.
GROW YOUR OWN
Pot is a weed and as such grows in all climates under every kind of soil
condition. We have seen acres and acres of grass growing in Kansas, Iowa and Ne
w Jersey. If you're not located next door to a large pot field growing in the wi
ld, maybe you would have some success in growing your own. It's well worth it to
try your potluck!The first thing is to start with a bunch of good-quality seeds
from grass that you really dig. Select the largest seeds and place them between
two heavy-duty napkins or ink blotters in a pan. Soak the napkins with water un
til completely saturated. Cover the top of the pan or place it in a dark closet
for three days or until a sprout about a half inch long appears from most of the
seeds.During this incubation period, you can prepare the seedling bed. Use a lo
w wooden box such as a tomato flat and fill it with an inch of gravel. Fill the
rest of the box with some soil mixed with a small amount of fertilizer. Moisten
the soil until water seeps out the bottom of the box, then level the soil making
a flat surface. With a pencil, punch holes two inches apart in straight rows. Y
ou can get about 2 dozen in a tomato flat.When the incubation period is over, ta
ke those seeds that have an adequate sprout and plant one in each hole. The spro
ut goes down and the seed part should be a little above ground. Tamp the soil fi
rmly (do not pack) around each plant as you insert the sprouts.The seedlings sho
uld remain in their boxes in a sunny window until about mid-May. They should rec
eive enough water during this period to keep the soil moist. By the time they ar
e ready to go into the ground, the green plants should be about six to eight inc
hes tall.If it is late winter or early spring and you have a plot of land that g
ets enough sun and is sheltered from nosy neighbors, you should definitely grow
grass in the great outdoors.One idea is to plant sunflowers in your garden as th
ese grow taller than the pot plants and camouflage them from view. The best idea
is to find some little-used field and plant a section of it.Prepare the land th
e way you would for any garden vegetable. Dig up the ground with a pitchfork or
heavy duty rake, removing rocks. Rake the plot level and punch holes in the soil
about three inches deep and about two feet apart in the same way you did in the
seedling boxes. Remove the young plants from the box, being careful not to dist
urb the roots and keeping as much soil intact as possible. Transplant each plant
into one of the punched-out holes and firmly press the soil to hold it in place
. When all the plants are in the ground, water the entire area. Tend them the wa
y you would any other garden. They should reach a height of about six feet by th
e end of the summer and be ready to harvest.If you don't have access to a field,
you can grow good stuff right in your own closet or garage using artificial lig
hting. Transplant the plants into larger wooden boxes or flower boxes. Be sure a
nd cover the bottom of each box with a few inches of pebbles or broken pottery b
efore you add the soil. This will insure proper drainage. Fertilize the soil acc
ording to the instructions on the box and punch out holes in much the same way y
ou would do if you were growing outside. After the young plants have been transp
lanted and watered thoroughly, you will have to rig up a lighting system. Use bl
ue light bulbs, which are available at hardware stores for the first thirty days
. These insure a shorter, sturdier stalk. Leave the lights on 24 hours a day and
place them about a foot above the tops of the plants. If the plants begin to fe
el brittle or turn yellow at the edges, then the temperature is too hot. Use les
s illumination or raise the height of the lamp if this occurs.After the first th
irty days, change to red bulbs and cut down the lighting time to 16 hours a day.
After a week, reduce the time to 14 hours and then on the third week to 12 hour
s. Maintain this lighting period until the plants flower. The female plants have
a larger and heavier flower structure and the males are somewhat skimpy. The fe
male plant produces the stronger grass and the choicest parts are the top leaves
including the flowers.Inside or outside, the plants will be best if allowed to
reach maturity, although they are smokeable at any point along the way. When you
want to harvest the crop, wet the soil and pull out the entire plant. If you wa
nt to separate the top leaves from the rest, you can do so and make two qualitie
s of grass. In any event, let the plants dry in the sun for two weeks until they
are thoroughly dried out. If you want to hurry the drying process, you can do i
t in an oven using a very low heat for about twenty minutes. After you've comple
ted the drying, you can "cure'" the grass by putting the plants in plastic bags
and sprinkling drops of wine, rum or plain booze on them. This greatly increases
the potency.There are two other ways that we know work to increase the potency
of grass you grow or buy. One consists of digging a hole and burying a stash of
grass wrapped in a plastic bag. A few months in the ground will produce a mouldy
grass that is far fuckin' out. A quick method is to get a hunk of dry ice, put
it in a metal container or box with a tight lid (taping the lid airtight helps),
and sprinkling the grass on top. Allow it to sit tightly covered for about thre
e days until all the dry ice evaporates.
ASSORTED FREEBIES
LAUNDRY
Wait in a laundromat. Tell someone with a light load that you'll watch t
he machine for them if you can stick your clothes in with theirs.
PETS
Your local ASPCA will give you a free dog, cat, bird or other pet. Have
them inspect and inoculate the animal which they will do free of charge. You can
get free or very cheap medical care for your pet at a school for veterinary med
icine.Underground newspapers often carry a free-pets column in the back pages. S
nakes can be caught in any wooded area and they make great pets. You can collect
insects pretty easy. Ants are unbelievable to watch. You can make a simple 3/4
inch wide glass case about a foot high, fill it with sand and start an ant colon
y. A library book will tell you how to care for them.Every year the National Par
k Service gives away surplus elks in order to keep the herds under its jurisdict
ion from outgrowing the amount of available land for grazing. Write to: Superint
endent, Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone, Wyoming 83020. You must be prepa
red to pay the freight charges for shipping the animal and guarantee that you ca
n provide enough grazing land to keep the big fellow happy.Under the same arrang
ement the government will send you a Free Buffalo. Write to: Office of Informati
on, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20420. So many people have writ
ten them recently demanding their Free Buffalo, that they called a pressconferen
ce to publicly attack the Yippies for creating chaos in the government. Don't ta
ke any buffalo shit from these petty bureaucrats, demand the real thing. Demand
your Free Buffalo.You can get a free l6mm movie about parakeets called "More Fun
with Parakeets," by writing to: R.T. French Co., 9068 Mustard St., Rochester, N
ew York 14609. This great film won an Academy Award for best picture of 1793.
POSTERS
Beautiful wall posters are available by writing to the National Tourist
Agencies of various countries. Most are located between 42nd and 59th Streets on
Fifth Ave. in New York City. You can find their addresses in the New York Yello
w Pages under both National Tourist Agencies and Travel Agencies. There are over
fifty of them. Prepare a form letter saying you are a high school geography tea
cher and would like some posters of the country to decorate your classroom. In a
month you will be flooded with them. Airline companies also have colorful wall
posters they send out free.
SECURITY
For this trick you need some money to begin with. Deposit it in a bank a
nd return in a few weeks telling them you lost your bank book. They give you a c
ard to fill out and sign and in a week you will receive another book. Now withdr
aw your money, leaving you with original money and a bank book showing a balance
. You can use this as identification to prevent vagrancy busts when traveling, a
s collateral for bail, or for opening a charge account at a store.Another trick
is to buy some American Travelers Checks. Wait a week and report your checks los
t. They'll give you new ones to replace the missing ones. You spend your new che
cks and keep the ones you reported lost as security. This security is great for
international travel especially at border crossings. If you want, you can spend
the Travelers Checks by giving them to a friend to forge your name. Before you c
all the office to report the loss, call the police station and say you were mugg
ed and your wallet was stolen. The agency always asks if you have reported the l
ost checks to the police, so you can safely answer yes. Never do this for more t
han five hundred dollars and never more than once with any one company.
POSTAGE
When mailing to the same city, address the envelope or package to yourse
lf and put the name of the person you are sending it to where the return address
generally goes. Mail it without postage and it will be "returned" to the sender
. Because almost all letters are machine processed, any stamp that is the correc
t size will pass. Easter Seals and a variety of other type stamps usually get by
the electronic scanner. If you put the stamp on a spot other than the far upper
right corner, it will not be cancelled and can be used again by the person who
gets your letter. If you have a friend working in a large corporation, you can r
un your organization's mail through their postage meter.Those ridiculous free in
troductory or subscription type letters that you get in the mail often have a po
stage-guaranteed return postcard for your convenience. The next one you get, pas
te it on a brick and drop it in the mailbox. The company is required by law to p
ay the postage. You can also get rid of all your garbage this way.MAPSYou can ge
t a free full-color World Atlas by writing to Hammond Inc. Maplewood, New Jersey
07040.
MINISTRY
Unquestionably one of the best deals going is becoming a minister in the
Universal Life Church. They will send you absolutely free, bona fide ordination
papers. These entitle you to all sorts of discounts and tax exemptions. Right n
ow, sit down and write to Universal Life Church Inc., 601 3rd St., Modesto, Cali
fornia 95351. Try cutting out the card on the following page and laminate it. Le
t us know how it works out.
ATROCITIES
Join the Army!
VETERAN'S BENEFITS
Write to the Veteran's Administration Information Service, Washington, D
.C. 20420 asking them for the free services they provide for veterans. Send fift
een cents to the Government Printing Office for their booklet Federal Benefits A
vailable to Veterans and Their Dependents.
WATCH
A $330 Bulova sport timer accurate to 1/10 of a second will be lent free
to judges and referees to time any amateur sporting event. Call your local auth
orized Bulova dealer and get one lent to you under a phony name. Tell them you w
ant to time an orgy.
VACATIONS
There are many ways to take a free vacation, but here's one you might no
t have considered. It's an all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas for absolutely no
thing. Call a travel agent and request information about Las Vegas gambling junk
ets (you'll probably have to hunt around because this practice is being curtaile
d). Different hotels have different deals, but the average one runs something li
ke this: If you agree to buy $500 worth of chips that can only be spent on gambl
ing tables of the host hotel, they will fly you round trip, pay all hotel and fo
od bills and provide you with a rented car. Go with a close friend and check int
o the hotel. Once at the roulette or craps table, you and your friend bet the sa
me amount of chips against each other on even-paying chances. For example, he wo
uld bet on red and you on black. When either of you wins, you keep the house chi
ps; when you lose, turn in the specially marked chips that cannot be cashed in.
What you are doing is simply exchanging the chips you came with for house chips
that you can cash in for real dough. Theoretically your two vacations should cos
t $23.00 if you do the betting at the crap table and $52.00 if you bet even chan
ces at roulette. That is because the house wins if 0 or 00 comes up in roulette
and if 12 comes up on the first roll of the dice, but it sure is a hell of a vac
ation for two for $23.00, and you get free champagne on some flights.You can get
half a vacation free by going to the Amerikan Embassy or Consulate in the count
ry you find yourself in and claim that you're destitute. There is a law o
n the books that says they have to send you away, but be persistent. Make up a s
tory about how your parents are away from home traveling. Say you got mugged or
something and you are about to go to the newspapers with your story. Eventually
they'll get you a free plane ticket. They stamp your passport invalid though, an
d you have to pay the government back before you can use it again.DRINKSWhen hit
ching, it's a good idea to carry a bottle opener and a straw. You take the caps
off soda bottles while they're still in the machine and drink them dry without e
ver touching the bottle.BURIALSFor ways to avoid the high cost of dying in Ameri
ka, write to: Continental Association, 39 East Van Buren St., Chicago, Ill. 6060
5. Send them $1.00 for the Manual of Simple Burial and 25¢ for a list of Memorial
Associates.
ASTRODOME PICTURES
Don't you just have to have a huge, glossy color photo of Houston's fame
d Astrodome to show all your friends? Use the teacher bit and write to: Greater
Houston Convention and Visitors Council, 1600 Main St., Houston, Texas 77002.
DIPLOMA
Above the paper towel dispenser in a service station restroom was writte
n: "San Francisco State Diplomas." If you really need a college or a high schoo
l diploma, send $2.00 to Glenco, Box 834, Warren, Michigan 48090. They send you
one that looks real authentic. It ain't Harvard, but it looks good enough to fra
me and put on your wall.
TOILETS
Sneak Under
!FIGHT!
Tell It All, Brothers and Sisters
STARTING A PRINTING WORKSHOP
Leaflets, posters, newsletters, pamphlets and other printed matter are i
mportant to any revolution. A printing workshop is a definite need in all commun
ities, regardless of size. It can vary from a garage with a mimeograph machine t
o a mammoth operation complete with printing presses and fancy photo equipment.
With less than a hundred dollars and some space, you can begin this vital servic
e. It'll take a while before you get into printing greenbacks, phony identificat
ion papers and credit cards like the big boys, but to walk a mile you must start
with one step as Gutenberg once said.PaperThe standard size for paper is 8¸" x 11
". It comes 500 sheets to a "ream" and 10 reams to a case. You want a 16-20 bond
weight sheet. The higher weights are better if you are printing on both sides.
You can purchase what are termed "odd lots" from most paper companies. This mean
s that the colors will be assorted and some sheets will be frayed at the edges o
r wrinkled. Odd lots can be purchased at great discounts. Some places sell paper
this way for 10% of the original price and for leaflets, different colors help.
Check this out with paper suppliers in your area.InkInks come in pastes and liq
uids and are available in stationary stores and office supply houses. Each machi
ne requires its own type ink, so learn what works best with the one you have. Co
lored ink is slightly more expensive but available for most machines.StencilsEac
h machine uses a particular size and style stencil. If you get stuck with the wr
ong kind and can't get out to correct the mistake, you can punch extra holes in
the top, trim them with a scissors if they are too big or add strips of tape to
the sides if too narrow.Be sure and use only the area that will fit on the paper
you are using. Most stencils can be used for paper larger than standard size. S
tencils will "cut" a lot neater if an electric typewriter is used. If you only h
ave access to e manual machine, remove the ribbon so the keys will strike the st
encil directly. A plastic sheet, provided by the supplier, can be inserted betwe
en the stencil and its backing to provide sharper cuts by the keys. If you hold
the stencil up to a light, you should be able to clearly see the typing. If you
can't, you'll have to apply more pressure.Sketches can be done with a ball point
pen or special stylus directly on the stencil. If you're really rushed, or ther
e isn't that much info to get on the leaflet, you can hand-print the text using
these instruments. Take care not to tear the stencil.Mimeograph MachinesThe pric
e of a new mimeograph runs from $200 to $1200, depending on how sophisticated a
machine you need and can afford. A.B. Dick and Gestetner are the most popular br
ands. Many supply houses have used machines for sale. Check the classified secti
on for bargains. See if any large corporations are moving, going out of business
or have just had a fire. Chances are they'll be unloading printing equipment at
cheap prices. Campaign offices of losing candidates often have mimeos to unload
in November. Many supply houses have renting and leasing terms that you might b
e interested in considering. Have an idea of the work load and type of printing
you'll be handling before you go hunting. Talk to someone who knows what they'r
e doing before you lay down a lot of cash on a machine.DuplicatorsWe prefer dupl
icators to mimeos even though the price is a little higher. They work faster, ar
e easier to operate and print clearer leaflets. The Gestener Silk Screen Duplica
tor is the best bet. It turns out stuff almost as good as offset printing. You c
an do 10 thousand sheets an hour in an assortment of colors.Electronic StencilsI
f you use electronic stencils you can do solid lettering, line drawings, cartoon
s and black and white pictures with good contrast. To make an electronic stencil
, you map out on a sheet of paper everything you want printed. This is a photo p
rocess, so make sure only what you want printed shows up on the sheet. You can u
se a light blue pencil for guide lines as it won't photograph, but be neat anywa
y. Printing shops will cut a stencil on a special machine for about $3.00.The Ge
stefax Electronic Stencil Cutter can be leased or rented in the same way as the
duplicator. If you are doing a lot of printing for a number of different groups,
this machine will eliminate plenty of hassle. The stencils cost about 20¢ each an
d take about fifteen minutes to make.If you have an electronic stencil cutter, d
uplicator, electric typewriter and a cheap source of paper, you can do almost an
y printing job imaginable. Have a dual rate system: one for community groups and
another for regular business orders. You can use the profits to go towards the
purchasing of more equipment and to build toward the day when you can get your o
wn offset press.Silk ScreeningPosters banners and shirts that are unbelievable c
an be printed by this exciting method. The process is easy to learn and teach. Y
ou'll need a fairly large area to work in since the posters have to be hung up t
o dry. Pick up any inexpensive paperback book on silk screening. The equipment c
osts less than $50.00 to begin. Once you get good at it, you can print complicat
ed designs in a number of different colors, including portraits.
UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPERS
Food conspiracies, bust trusts, people's clinics and demonstrations are
all part of the new Nation, but if asked to name the most important institution
in our lives, one would have to say the underground newspaper. It keeps tuned in
on what's going on in the community and around the world. Values, myths, symbol
s, and all the trappings of our culture are determined to a large extent by the
underground press. Each office serves as a welcome mat for strangers, a meeting
place for community organizers and a rallying force to fight pig repression. The
re are probably over 500 regularly publishing with readerships running from a fe
w hundred to over 500,000. Most were started in the last three years. If your sc
ene doesn't have a paper, you probably don't have a scene together. A firmly est
ablished paper can be started on about $2,500. Plan to begin with eight pages in
black and white with a 5,000 copy run. Each such issue will cost about $300 to
print. You should have six issues covered when you start. Another $700 will do f
or equipment. Offset printing is what you'll want to get from a commercial print
ing establishment.You need some space to start, but don't rush into setting up a
storefront office until you feel the paper's going to be successful. A garage,
barn or spare apartment room will do just fine. Good overhead fluorescent lighti
ng, a few long tables, a bookcase, desk, chairs, possibly a phone and you are re
ady to start.Any typewriter will work, but you can rent an IBM Selectric typewri
ter with a deposit of $120.00 and payments of $20.00 per month. Leasing costs tw
ice as much, but you'll own the machine when the payments are finished. The Sele
ctric has interchangeable type that works on a ball system rather than the old-f
ashion keys. Each ball costs $18.00, so by getting a few you can vary the type t
he way a printer does.A light-table can make things a lot easier when it comes t
o layout. Simply build a box (3' x 4' is a good size, but the larger the better)
out of ¸" plywood. The back should be higher than the front to provide a sloping
effect. The top should consist of a shelf of frosted glass. Get one strong enoug
h to lean on. Inside the box, attach two fluorescent light fixtures to the walls
or base. The whole light table should cost less than $25.00. That really is abo
ut all you need, except someone with a camera, a few good writers who will serve
as reporters, an artistic person to take care of layout, and someone to hassle
printing deals, advertising and distribution. Most people start by having everyo
ne do everything.LayoutA tabloid size paper is 9 7/8" x 14 5/8" with an inch lef
t over on each side for margins. Columns typically are 3 1/4" allowing for three
per page. Experience has found that this size is easy to lay out and more impor
tantly, easy to read. There is an indirect ratio between readability and academi
c snobbishness. Avoid the textbook look. Remember, the New York Times in its low
form represents the Death Kulture.Start off with a huge collection of old magaz
ines and newspapers. You can cut up all sorts of letters, borders, designs and s
ketches and paste them together to make eye-catching headlines. Sheets of headli
ne type are available in different styles from art stores for $1.25 a sheet. Buy
one of each type and then photograph several copies of each, bringing the price
way down. The basic content in the prescribed column size should be banged out
on the IBM. The columns can be clipped together with a clothespin to avoid confu
sion. Use a good heavy bond white opaque paper.All black and white photographs f
rom newspapers and magazines can be used directly. Color pictures can also be us
ed but it's tricky and you'll have to experiment a little to get an understandin
g of what colors photograph poorly. Glossy black and white photographs must be s
hot in half tones to keep the grey areas. You can have them processed at any pho
to lab. You might also need the photo lab for enlargements or reductions, so mak
e contact and establish a good working relationship.An Exacto knife is available
for 29¢ and you can get a package of 100 blades for $10.00. A few metal rulers, a
good pair of scissors, some spray adhesive or rubber cement and you're ready to
paste the pages that will make up the "dummy" that goes to the printer. Each pa
ge is laid out on special layout sheets with faint blue guide lines that don't p
hotograph. Any large art supply store sells these sheets and all the other suppl
ies.By working over a light-table, the paste-up can be done more professionally.
Experiment with many different layouts for each page before finally pasting up
the paper. Don't have a picture in the corner and the rest solid columns. Print
can be run over pictures and sketches by preparing two sheets for that page and
shooting background in half-tones. The columns don't have to be run straight up
and down, but can run at different angles. The most newsworthy articles should b
e towards the front of the paper. The centerfold can be treated in an exciting
manner. A good idea is to do the centerfold so that it can be used as a poster t
o put on a wall after the paper is read. If you have ads, they should be kept ne
ar the back. The masthead, which gives the staff, mailing address, and similar i
nfo, goes near the front. Your focus should be the local activities. A section s
hould be reserved for a directly of local services and events. People giving thi
ngs away should have a section. The rest really depends on the life style and po
litics of the staff.National stories can be supplied by one or more of the news
services. Nothing in the underground press is copyrighted, so you can reprint an
interesting article from another paper. It's customary to indicate what paper p
rinted it first, or news service it was sent out by. Any underground paper has p
ermission to reprint hunks of this book.AdsMost papers find it necessary to get
some advertising to help defray the production costs. Some rely totally on subsc
ription; some are outgrowths of organizations and still others are printed up an
d just handed out free. The ones with ads seem to have the longest life. Make up
 an ad rate before you put out the first issue. Ads are measured in inches of le
ngth. The width is understood by everyone to be the width of the column. If you
use the 3¹" column, however, you'll want to let potential advertisers know you hav
e wide columns.The way to arrive at a reasonable rate is to estimate the total b
udget for each issue (adding some for overhead and labor), then each page and fi
nally each column inch. After a little arithmetic you can get a good estimate of
your printing cost per inch. Using our figures throughout this section, it shou
ld come to about $2.00 per inch. Double this figure and you'll arrive at the co
rrect rate per advertising inch-$4.00. There should be special lower rates for l
arge ads, such as half or full pages. There should also be a special arrangement
for a continuous subscriber. If you have a classified section, another rate bas
ed on number of words or lines is constructed. A service charge is fixed if you
make up the ad layout rather than the advertiser. The whole formula should be wo
rked out and printed up before you lay out the first issue.The best place to get
advertising is locally. Theaters, hip clothing stores, ice cream parlors, and r
ecord stores are among the type of advertisers you should approach. After you bu
ild up a circulation, you might want to seek out national advertisers. The Under
ground Press Syndicate, Box 26, Village Station, New York, NY 10014, can be join
ed for $25.00, no dues thereafter. They try to get national ads for you in addit
ion to sending out a newsletter, a news service, and making sure you get free su
bscriptions to the other underground papers. The U.P.S. can also do many other t
hings for you, like list you in their directory, obtain legal advice, and bring
you together with other underground papers for mutual benefit and defense. Anoth
er way to get national advertising is to see who tends to advertise in other und
erground papers. Send the publicity department of these companies letters and sa
mples of your paper. Never let ads make up more than half the paper.Distribution
At the beginning you should aim for a bi-weekly paper with a gradual increase in
the number of pages. The price should be about 25¢. Check out the local laws abou
t selling papers on the street. It's probably allowed and is a neat way to get t
he paper around. Give half to the street hawkers. Representatives at high school
s and colleges should be sought out. Bookstores and newsstands are good places t
o distribute. After your paper gets going well, you might try for national distr
ibution. The Cosmep Newsletter is put out by the Committee of Small Magazines, E
ditors and Publishers, PO Box 1425, Buffalo, NY 14214. In addition to good tips
if you want to start a small literary magazine or publish your own book, they pr
ovide an up-to-date list of small stores around the country that would be likely
to carry your paper. Subscriptions should be sought in the paper itself. If you
get a lot, check out second class mailing privileges. UPS can help with out-of-
city distribution.If you're in a smaller town, you might have to shop around or
go to another city to get printing done. Many printers print only pig swill, whi
ch brings up the point of getting busted for obscenity which can be pretty commo
n. You probably should incorporate, but contact a sympathetic lawyer before you
put out your first issue. During the summer there are usually a few alternative
media conferences organized by one group or another. You can pick up valuable in
formation and exchange ideas at these gatherings. UPS and the news services will
keep you posted. Good luck and write on!
HIGH SCHOOL PAPERS
The usual high school paper is run by puppet lackeys of the administrati
on. It avoids controversy, naughty language, and a host of other things foreign
to the 4-H Club members the school is determined to mass produce. The only thing
the staff is good at is kissing the principal's ass. Let's face it, the aim of
a good high school newspaper should be to destroy the high school. Publishing an
d distributing a heavy paper isn't going to earn you the Junior Chamber of Comme
rce good citizenship award. You might have to be a little mysterious about who t
he staff is until you understand the ground rules and who controls the ballpark²th
e people or the principal.Many schools do not allow papers to be handed out on t
he school premises. These cases are generally won by the newspapers that take th
e school to court. You can challenge the rule and make the administration look l
ike the dinosaurs they are by distributing sheets of paper with only your logo a
nd the school rule printed. By gaining outside publicity for the first distribut
ion of the paper, you might put the administration up tight about clamping down
on you. It might be difficult to explain in civics class when they get to the fr
eedom of the press stuff. Your paper should have one purpose in mind²to piss off t
he principal and radicalize the students. If you run into problems, seek out a s
ympathetic lawyer. You can get a helpful pamphlet from the ACLU, 156 5th Ave., N
ew York, NY 10010, called Academic Freedom in the Secondary Schools" for 25¢.Tell
your lawyer about the most recent (July 10, 1970) decision of the United States
District Court in Connecticut which ruled that the high school students of Rippo
wan High School in Stanford can publish independent newspapers without having th
e contents screened in advance by school officials.The same info for underground
papers applies to high school rags, only the price should be much less if not f
ree. To begin with, you might just mimeograph the first few issues before trying
photo-offset printing. It is very important to get the readers behind you in ca
se you have to go to war with the administration in order to survive. Maintain f
riendships with above ground reporters, the local underground paper and radical
community groups for alliances.
G.I. PAPERS
A heavier scene than even the high schools exists in No-No Land of the m
ilitary. None-the-less, against incredible odds, courageous G.I.'s both here and
overseas have managed to put out a number of underground newspapers. If you are
a G.I. interested in starting a paper, the first thing to do is seek out a few
buddies who share your views on the military and arrange a meeting, preferably o
ff the base. Once you have your group together, getting the paper published will
be no problem. Keeping your staff secret, you can have one member contact with
someone from a G.I. coffee house, anti-war organization or nearby underground ne
wspaper. This civilian contact person will be in a position to raise the bread a
nd arrange the printing and distribution of the paper. You can write one of the
national G.I. newspaper organizations listed at the end of this section if you a
re unable to find help locally. The paper should be printed off the base. Govern
ment equipment should be avoided.Correspondence and subscriptions can be solicit
ed through the use of a post office box. Such a box is inexpensive and secret (a
t least that's what the G.I. papers now publishing report) from military snooper
s up tight about bad publicity if they get caught spying. If you are mailing the
paper to other G.I.'s use first class mail and a plain envelope. This is advice
to anybody sending stuff to a G.I. The mail is handled by "lifers" who will rep
ort troublemakers to their C.O. (Commanding Officer) if they notice anti-war slo
gans on envelopes or dirty commie rags coming their way.You'll want to publish s
tuff relevant to the lives of the G:I.'s on your base. News of demonstrations, a
rticles on the war, racism, counter-culture and vital info on how to bug the hig
her-ups and get out of the military service are all good. Get samples of other n
ewspapers already in operation to get the flavor of writing that has become popu
lar.Distributing the paper is really more of a problem than the publishing. Here
you run smack into Catch 22, which says, "no printed matter may be distributed
on a military base without prior written permission of the commanding officer."
No such permit has been granted in military history. A few court battles have ha
d limited success and you should go through the formality of obtaining a permit.
Send the first issue of the paper to your C.O. with a cover letter stating wher
e and when you intend to distribute the paper on the base. In no part of the app
lication should you list your names. Have a civilian, preferably a civil liberti
es lawyer, sign the declaration of intent. If more info is requested, go over it
with the lawyer before responding, Natch, they're going to want to know who you
are and where you get your bread, but fuck 'em. Whether or not you get a permit
or have a successful court battle is pretty academic. If the military pigs catc
h you handing out an underground paper on the base, you're headed for trouble. U
se civilian volunteers from your local peace group in as many public roles as po
ssible. They'll be glad to help out.Print and distribute as many copies as you c
an rather than concentrating on an expensively printed paper with numerous pages
. The very existence of the paper around the base is the most important info the
 paper can offer. Leave some in mess halls, theaters, benches, washrooms, and ot
her suitable spots. Off base get the paper to sympathetic reporters, coffee hous
es, colleges and the like. Outside U.S.O. centers and bus terminals are a good p
lace to get the paper out. Rely on donations, so you can make the paper free. Ge
t it together. Demand the right to join the army of your choice. The People's Ar
my! As Joe Hill said in one of his songs, "Yes, I'll pick up a gun but I won't g
uarantee which way I'll point it."
NEWS SERVICES
Aside from UPS, which is the association of papers, there are five news
services that we know of that you might be interested in subscribing to for nati
onal stories, photos, production ideas, news of other papers and general movemen
t dope. LNS is the best known. It sends out packets once a week that include abo
ut thirty pages with original articles, eye-witness reports, reprints from forei
gn papers and photographs. They tend to be heavily political rather than cultura
l and view themselves as molders of ideology rather than strictly a service orga
nization of the underground papers. A subscription costs $15.00 per month, but i
f you're just starting out they are good about slow payments and such.You should
get in the habit of sending special articles, in particular eye-witness account
s of events that other papers might use, to one or more of the news services for
distribution. If you hear of an important event that you would like to cover in
your newspaper, call the paper in that area for a quick report. They might send
you photos if you agree to reciprocate.
¥ LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE-160 Claremont Ave., New York, N.Y. 10027 (212) 7
49-2200
¥ COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE-1779 Church St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20036 (202)
387-7575
¥ CHICANO PRESS ASSOCIATION-La Raza, Box 31004, Los Angeles, California 90
031
¥ G.I. PRESS SERVICE-Rm 907, 1029 Vermont Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20005
¥ FREE RANGER INTERTRIBAL NEWS SERVICE-Box 26, Village Station, N.Y., N.Y.
10014 (212) 691-6973
A complete and up-to-date list of G.I. underground papers can be obtaine
d by writing to G.I. Press Service, 1029 Vermont Ave., NW, Rm 907, Washington, D
.C. 20005. G.I. Alliance provides excellent national newsletters with all sorts
of ways to fuck up the Army. Write G.I. Alliance, PO Box 9087, Washington, D.C.
20003. The phone is (202) 544-1654. American Serviceman's Union, 156 5th Avenue,
New York, N.Y., 10010 will also help, as well as provide legal and medical aid
to G.I.'s.A complete and up to date list of Chicano underground papers can be ob
tained by writing to Chicano Press Association, La Raza, Box 31004, Los Angeles,
California 90031.The Young Lords Organization paper Palante can be obtained by
writing to Young Lords Party, Ministry of Finance, 1678 Madison Ave., New York,
N.Y. 10029. It's $5.75 for 24 issues.The Black Panther Party paper can be obtain
ed by writing to Black Panther Party, Ministry of Information, Box 2967, Custom
House, San Francisco, Calif. 94126. It's $7.50 for 52 issues.
THE UNDERGROUND PRESS
¥ ALBION'S VOICE, Box 9033, Savannah, Ga. 31401 $4/yr.
¥ AMAZING GRACE, 212 W. College Ave. Tallahassee, Fla. $6/26 issues.
¥ ANGRY CITY PRESS, 14016 Orinoco Ave., E. Cleveland, Ohio 44112
¥ ANN ARBOR ARGUS, 708 Arch St., Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104 $3/yr.
¥ AQUARIAN ORACLE, 8003 Santa Monica Blvd., L.A., Calif. .50/iss.
¥ AQUARIAN TIMES, 331 Forest Acres Shipping Ctr., Easley, S.C. 29640
¥ AQUARIAN WEEKLY, 292 Main St., Hackensack, N.J.
¥ ASTRAL PROJECTION, Box 4383, Albuquerque, N. Mex. 87106
¥ AUGUR, 207 Ransom Bldg., 115 E. 11th Ave., Eugene, Ore. 97401
¥ BARD OBSERVER, Box 76, Bard College, Annandale-on-the Hudson, N.Y. 12504
¥ BERKELEY BARB, Box 1247, Berkeley, Calif. 94715 $6/yr.
 ¥ BERKELEY TRIBE, Box 9049, Berkeley, Calif. 94709 $8/
¥ BOTH SIDES NOW, 10370 St. Augustine Rd., Jacksonville, Fla. 32217
$2/12 iss.
¥ BROADSIDE/FREE PRESS, Box 65, Cambridge, Mass. 02139 $4.50/yr.
¥ BURNING RIVER NEWS, 12027 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44112 $5/yr.
¥ CHINOOK, 1452 Pennsylvania St., Denver, Col., 80203 $6/50 iss.
¥ THE CLAM COMMUNITY LIBERATOR, Box 13101, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33733
¥ COME OUT, Box 92, Village Station, New York, N.Y. 10014, $6.50/12
iss.
¥ COUNTRY SENSES, Box 465, Woodbury, Conn. 06798 $5/yr.
¥ CREEM, 3729 Cass Ave., Detroit, Mich. 48201 $5/24 iss.
¥ DAILEY PLANET, Suite 2-3514 S. Dixie Hwy., Coconut Grove, Fla. 33133 $5
/yr.
¥ DALLAS NOTES, Box 7140, Dallas, Texas 75209 $5/yr.
¥ DIFFERENT DRUMMER, Box 2638, Little Rock, Ark. 72203 $2/14 iss.
¥ DISTANT DRUMMER, 420 South St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19147 $7/yr.
¥ DOOR TO LIBERATION, Box 2022, San Diego, Calif. 92112 $4/26 iss.
¥ DWARFF, Box 26, Village Station, N.Y., N.Y. 10014
¥ EAST VILlAGE OTHER, 20 E. 12 St., N.Y., N.Y. 10003 $6/yr.
¥ EL GRITO DEL NORTE, Box 466, Fairview Station, Espanola, N.M. $4/yr.
¥ EYE OF THE BEAST, Box 9218, Tampa, Fla. 33604 ¥ FERAFERIA, Box 691, Altade
na, Calif. 91001 $4/13 iss.
¥ FIFTH ESTATE, 1107 W. Warren, Detroit, Mich. 48201 $3.75/yr.
¥ FILMMAKERS NEWSLETTER, 80 Wooster St., N.Y., N.Y. 10012
¥ FREEDOM NEWS, Box 1087, Richmond, Calif. 94801 $2.50/12 iss.
¥ FREE SPAGHETTI DINNER, Box 984, Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 $4/yr.
¥ FREE YOU, 117 University Ave., Palo Alto, Calif. 94301 $6/yr.
¥ FUSION, 909 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. 02215 $5/yr. ¥ GEST, Box 1079, North
land Center, Southfield, Mich. 48075 $2/yr.
¥ GREAT SPECKLED BIRD, Box 54495, Atlanta, Ga. 30308 $6/yr.
¥ GREENFEEL, Jms Madison Law Inst., 4 Patchin Pl., N.Y., N.Y. 10011
¥ GUARDIAN, 32 W. 22 St., N.Y. N.Y. 10010 ¥ HAIGHT-ASHBURY TRIBUNE, 1778 Hai
ght St., San Francisco, Calif. 94117 $10/yr.
¥ HARRY, 233 East 25th St., Baltimore, Md., 21218 $4/yr.
¥ INDIANAPOLIS FREE PRESS, Box 225, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 $5/26 is
s.
¥ INQUISITION, Box 3882, Charlotte, N.C. 28203 $2/6 iss.
¥ KALEIDOSCOPE, Box 5457, Milwaukee, Wisc. 53211 $5/26 iss.
¥ KUDZU, Box 22502, Jackson, Miss. 39205 $4/yr.
¥ LAS VEGAS FREE PRESS, Box 14096, Las Vegas, Nev. 89114 $7/yr.
¥ LEFT FACE, Box 1595, Anniston, Ala. 36201
¥ LIBERATION, 339 Lafayette St., N.Y. 10012
¥ LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE, 160 Claremont Ave., N.Y. 10027 $15/mth.
¥ LIBERATOR, Box 1147, Morgantown, W. Virginia 26505
¥ LONGBEACH FREE PRESS, 1255 E. 10, Long Beach, Ca. 90813 $6/25 iss.
¥ LOS ANGELES FREE PRESS, 7813 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, Ca. 90036
$6/yr.
¥ MADISON KALEIDOSCOPE, Box 881, Madison, Wisc. 53701 $5/yr.
¥ MARIJUANA REVIEW, Calif. Instit. of Arts, 7500 Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank,
Calif. 91504 ¥ MEMPHIS ROOT, Box 4747, Memphis, Tenn. 38104 $3.50/yr.
¥ METRO, 906 W. Forest, Detroit, Mich. 48202 $4/yr.
¥ MODERN UTOPIAN, P.0. Drawer A; Diamond Hts. Sta., S.F., Ca. 94131 $4
/yr.
¥ MOTHER EARTH NEWS, Box 38 Madison, Ohio 44057 $5/yr
¥ NEWS FROM NOWHERE, Box 501, Dekalb, Ill. 60115 $5/yr.
¥ NEW PRAIRIE PRIMER, Box 726, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613 $4/20 iss.
¥ NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 110 St. Marks Place, N.Y. $5/lifetime
¥ NOLA EXPRESS, Box 2342, New Orleans, La. 70116 $3/yr.
¥ NORTH CAROLINA ANVIL, Box 1148, Durham, N.C. 27702 $7.50/yr.
¥ NORTHWEST PASSAGE, Box 105, Fairhaven Sta., Bellingham, Wash. 98225
$5/yr.
¥ OLD MOLE, 2 Brookline St., Cambridge, Mass. 02139 $5/20 iss.
¥ ORACLE OF SAN FRANCISCO, 1764 Haight St., San Francisco, Ca. 94117
¥ OTHER SCENES, Box B, Village Station, N.Y. 10014 $6/yr.
¥ OTHER VOICE, c/o Why Not Inc., Box 3175, Shreveport, La. 71103 $5/yr.
¥ PAPER WORKSHOP, 6 Helena Ave., Larchmont, N.Y. 10538 $4/yr.
¥ PEOPLES DREADNAUGHT, Box 1071, Beloit, Wisc.
¥ PHILADELPHIA FREE PRESS, Box 1986, Philadelphia, Pa. 19105
¥ PROTEAN RADISH, Box 202, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514 $8/yr.
¥ PROVINCIAL PRESS, Madala Print Shop, Box 1276, Spokane, Wash. 99210
$5/yr.
¥ QUICKSILVER TIMES, 1736 R St., N.W. Wash., D.C. 20009 $8/yr.
¥ RAG, 2330 Guadalupe, Austin, Tex. 78705 $7.50/yr.
¥ RAT, 241 E. 14 St., N.Y. 10009 $6/yr.
¥ REBIRTH, Box 729, Phoenix, Ariz. 85001
¥ RISING UP ANGRY, Box 3746, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Ill. 60654
$5/yr.
¥ ROOSEVELT TORCH, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60605
¥ SAN DIEGO STREET JOURNAL, Box 1332, San Diego, Calif. 92112
¥ SECOND CITY, c/o The Guild, 2136 N. Halsted, Chicago, Ill. 60614
$6/26 iss.
¥ SECOND COMING, Box 491 Ypsilanti, Mich. 48197
¥ SEED, 950 W. Wrightwood, Chicago, Ill. 60614 $6/yr.
¥ SPACE CITY, 1217 Wichita, Houston, Tex. 77004
¥ SPECTATOR, c/o S. Indiana Media Corp., Box 1216, Bloomington, Ind.
47401
¥ SUNDANCE, 1520 Hill, Ann Arbor, mich. 48104 $3.50/yr.
¥ UPROAR, 44 Wimbleton Lane, Great Neck, N.Y. 11023
¥ VIEW FROM THE BOTTOM, 632 State St., New Haven, Conn. 06510 $5/20 is
s.
¥ VORTEX, 706 Mass St., Lawrence, Kansas 66044 $5/24 iss.
¥ WALRUS, Box 2307, Sta. A, Champaign, Ill. 61820
¥ WATER TUNNEL, Box 136, State College, Pa. 16801 $3/Yr.
¥ WILLIAMETTE BRIDGE, 6 SW 6th, Portland, Ore. 97209 $5/26 iss.
¥ WIN, 339 Lafayette St., N.Y. 10012 $5/yr.
¥ WORKER'S POWER, 14131 Woodward Ave., Highland Park, Mich. 48203 $3.50/yr
.USA/UPS
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
¥ AKWESASNE NOTES, Roosevelton, N.Y. 13683 .50/iss.
¥ ALESTLE, c/o Paul Gorden, 7404 Tower Lake, Apt. 1D, Edwardsville,
Ill. 62025
¥ ALLIANCE MAGAZINE, Box 229, Athens, Ohio 45701 ¥ ALL YOU CAN EAT, R.P.O. 4
949, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 $3/yr.
¥ ALLTOGETHER, 44208 Montgomery-33 Palm Desert, Calif. $10/yr.
¥ ALBION'S VOICE, P.0. Box 9033, Savannah, Ga. 31401 $4/yr.
¥ AQUARIAN HERALD, Box 83, Virginia Beach, Va. 23458 ¥ ATLANTIS, 204 Oxford,
Dayton, Ohio ¥ BOTH SIDES NOW, 10370 St. Augustine Rd., Jacksonville, Fla. 3321
7 $3.50/12 iss.
¥ COLLECTIVE, 614 Clark St., Evanston, Ill. 60201
¥ COME TOGETHER, P.O. Box 163, Encino, Calif. 91316
¥ CROSSROADS, Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. 19464 ¥ DALLAS NEWS (CORP), P.0. B
ox 7013, Dallas, Texas 75209 $/24 iss.
¥ THE D.C. GAZETTE, 109 8th N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002 $5/yr.
¥ EDGE CITY, 116 Standart St., Syracuse, N.Y. 13201 $3/yr.
¥ EVERYWOMAN, 6516 W. 83 St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90045 $2.50/iss.
¥ FAIR WITNESS, P.0. Box 7165, 0akland Sta., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213
¥ FOX VALLEY KALEIDOSCOPE, Box 252, Oshkosh, Wisc. 54901
¥ FREE PRESS OF LOUISVILLE, 1438 S. First St., Louisville, Ky. 40208
$6/yr.
 ¥ HIGH GAUGE, Box 4491, University, Ala. 35486 $5/Yr.
¥ THE HIPS VOICE, P.O. Box 5132, Santa Fe, N. Mexico 87501 $5/24 iss.
¥ HOME NEWS CO., P.O. Box 5263, Grand Central Station, N.Y. 10017
¥ HUNDRED FLOWERS, Box 7152, Minneapolis, Minn. 55407 $9/yr.
¥ IT AIN'T ME BABE, c/o W.L. Office Box 6323, Albany, Calif. 94706
$6/yr.
¥ LIBERATED GUARDIAN, 14 Cooper Sq., New York, N.Y. 10003 $10/yr.
¥ THE LONG ISLAND FREE PRESS, P.O. Box 162, Westbury, N.Y. 11590 $6/2 yr.
¥ NEW TIMES, Box J, Temple, Ariz. 85281 $10/52 iss.
¥ NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, P.O. Box 15081, San Francisco, Calif. 94115
¥ OUR TOWN (COLLECTIVE), Box 611, Eau Claire, Wisc.
¥ PALANTE YLP, 1678 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. ¥ PROTOS, 1110 N. Edgemont
St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90029 $3/yr.
¥ PURPLE BERRIES, 449 West Seventh Ave., Columbus Ohio
¥ REARGUARD, P.O. Box 8115, Mobile, Ala. 36608 $4/yr.
¥ THE S.S. PENTANGLE, Box 4429, New Orleans, La. 70118 $4/20 iss.
¥ ST. LOUIS OUTLAW, Box 9501, Cabanne Sta., St. Louis, Mo. 63161
¥ SUSQUEHANNA BUGLER, 700 Market St., Williamsport, Pa. 17701 .25/iss.
¥ TASTY COMIX, Box 21101, Wash., D.C. 20009
¥ THE TIMES NOW, Box 676, Coconut Grove, Fla. 33133
¥ TUSCON FREE PRESS, Box 3403, College Sta., Tuscon, Ariz. 85716CANADA/UPS

¥ ALTERNATE SOCIETY, 10 Thomas St., St. Catharines, Ont. $3.50/12 iss.

¥ CARILLON, Univ. of Sask. Regina Campus, Regina, Saskatchewan
¥ CHEVRON, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario $8/yr.
¥ DIME BAG, 3592 University St., Montreal 130, Que.
¥ FOURTH ESTATE, 24 Brighton Ct., Fredericton, N.B.
¥ GEORGIA STRAIGHT, 56A Powell St., Vancouver, 4, B.C. $9/52 iss.
¥ HARBINGER, Box 751, Stn F, Toronto 285, Ontario $4/26 iss.
¥ OCTOPUS, Box 1259, Station B, Ottawa, 4 $4.50/26 iss.
¥ OMPHALOS, 279¸ Fort St. No. 4, Winnipeg 1, Manitoba $5/26 iss.
¥ PRAIRIE FIRE; FOURTH ESTATE, Regina Community Media Project, 210 Nort
hern Crown Bldg. Regina, Sask.
¥ SWEENEY, 119 Thomas St., Oakville, Ontario $2.50/12 iss.EUROPE/UPS
¥ Europe/UPS, Box 304, 8025, Zurich, Switzerland
¥ FIFTH COLUMN, 100 New Cavendish Street, London W1, England
¥ FRIENDS, 305 Portobello Rd., London W10, England
¥ HAPT, Flat L, 42 Moore Ave., W. Howe, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England ¥
HOLLAND HAPT, Keigersstraat 2a, Amsterdam, Holland
¥ HOTCHAI, Postfach 304-CH 8025, Zurich 25, Switz. $5/yr.
¥ INTERNATIONAL TIMES, 27 Endell St., London, WC2, Eng. $5/yr.
¥ KARGADOOR, Oude Gracht 36 bis. Utrecht, Holland
¥ OEUF, 14 Ch de la Mogeonne, 1293 Bellevue, Geneva Switzerland
¥ OM, Kaizerstraat 2A, 11et, Amsterdam, Holland, Neth.
¥ OPS VEDA, 16 Woodholm Rd., Sheffield 11, England ¥ OZ, 52 Princedale Rd.,
London W11, England $6/yr.
¥ PEACE NEWS, 5 Celedonian Rd., Kings Cross, London W1, Eng. $8.50/yr
.
¥ PIANETA FRESCA, 14 Vie Manzoni, Milano, Italy 20121 $1/iss.
¥ QUINTO LICEO, c/o Tommsaco Bruccoleri, 3, Meadow Place, London, England
¥ REAL FREE PRESS, Runstraat 31, Amsterdam, Netherlands $1/2 iss.
¥ RED MOLE, 182 Pentonville Rd., London N1 Eng. $5.50/yr.
¥ ROTTEN, Huset, Readhusstraede 13, 1466 Copenhagen K. Denmark
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
¥ CYCLOPS, 32. St. Petersburg Place, London, W2, Eng. (Comix)
¥ GRASS EYE, 71 Osbourne Rd., Levenshulme, Manchester 19, Eng.
¥ MOLE EXPRESS, 19 New Brown St., Manchester 4, Eng.
¥ PANGGG, Upn-Sippenpresse, d-8500, Nurnberg Kopernikusstr. 4, Germany ¥ PAR
IA, c/o Poretti Viavalle Maggia 41, 6600 Locarno, Switz.
 ¥ ZIGZAG, Yeoman Cottage, N. Marston, Bucks, EnglandLATIN AMERICA/UPS
¥ ECO CONTEMPORANEO, C. Correo Central 1933, Buenos Aires, Argentina...Mem
bership list temporarily unavailable.
SWITCHBOARDS
A good way to quickly communicate what's coming down in the community is
to build a telephone tree. It works on a pyramid system. A small core of people
are responsible for placing five calls each. Each person on the line in turn ca
lls five people and so on. If the system is prearranged correctly with adjustmen
ts made if some people don't answer the phone, you can have info transmitted to
about a thousand people in less than an hour. A slower but more permanent method
is to start a Switchboard. Basically, a Switchboard is a central telephone numb
er or numbers that anybody can call night or day to get information. It can be a
s sophisticated as the community can support. The people that agree to answer th
e phone should have a complete knowledge of places, services and events happenin
g in the community. Keep a complete updated file. The San Francisco Switchboard
(see below) puts out an operator's manual explaining the organization and operat
ion of a successful switchboard. They will send it out for 12¢ postage. San Franci
sco has the longest and most extensive Switchboard operation. From time to time
there are national conferences with local switchboards sending a rep.San Francis
co ¥ THE SWITCHBOARD - 1830 Fell St., San Francisco, Calif. 94117 (415) 387-3
575
¥ MUSIC SWITCHBOARD - 1826 Fell St., San Francisco, Calif. 94117 (415) 387
-8008
¥ MISSION SWITCHBOARD - 848 14th St., San Francisco, Calif. 94110 (415) 86
3-3040
¥ CHINATOWN EXCHANGE - 1042 Grant Ave., San Francisco, Calif. 94108 (415)
421-0943
¥ THE HELP UNIT - 86 3rd St., San Francisco, Calif. 94103 (415) 421-9850
¥ WESTERN ADDITION SWITCHBOARD - Fell & Fillmore, San Francisco, Calif. (4
15) 626-8524 California
¥ CHICO SWITCHBOARD - 120 W. 2nd St., Chico, Calif. (916) 342-7546
¥ EAST OAKLAND SWITCHBOARD - 2812 73rd Ave., Oakland, Calif. (415)569-6369
¥ MARIN MUSIC SWITCHBOARD - 1017 "D" St., San Rafael, Calif. (415) 457-210
4
¥ WEST OAKLAND LEGAL SWITCHBOARD - 2713 San Pablo, Oakland, Calif. (415) 8
36-3013
¥ SWITCHBOARD OF MARIN - 1017 "D" St., San Rafael, Calif. (415) 456-5300
¥ BERKELEY SWITCHBOARD - 2389 Oregon, Berkeley, Calif. (415) 549-0649
¥ SANTA CRUZ SWITCHBOARD - 604 River St., Santa Cruz, Calif. (408) 426-850
0
¥ PALO ALTO XCHANGE - 457 Kingsley Ave., Palo Alto, Calif. (415) 327-9008
¥ SAN JOSE SWITCHBOARD - 50 S. 4th St., San Jose, Calif. (408) 295-2938
¥ SANTA BARBARA SWITCHBOARD - 6575 Seville, Isla Vista, Calif. (805) 968-3
564
¥ EUREKA SWITCHBOARD - 1427 California, Eureka, Calif. (707) 443-8901 & 44
3-8311
¥ UC DAVIS SWITCHBOARD - (on campus), UC Davis, Calif. (916) 752-3495Other
Western States ¥ TURNSTILE - 1900 Emerson, Denver, Colorado (303) 623-344
5
¥ BLACKHAWK INFORMATION CENTER - 628 Walnut St., Waterloo, Iowa (319) 234-
9965
¥ TAOS SWITCHBOARD - c/o Gen. Del., Taos, New Mexico (505) 758-4288
¥ PORTLAND SWITCHBOARD - 1216 SW Salmon, Portland, Oregon (503) 224-0313
¥ HOUSTON SWITCHBOARD - 108 San Jacinto, Houston, Texas (713) 228-6072
¥ YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICE - 623 Cedar Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. (612) 3
38-7588 Eastern States
¥ POWELTON TROUBLE CENTER - 222 N. 35th St., Phila., Penna.. (215) 382-647
2
 ¥ WASHINGTON D.C. SWITCHBOARD - 2201 P St. NW, Washington, D.C. (202) 667-
4684
¥ MIAMI CENTER FOR DIALOG - 2175 NW 26th St., Miami, Fla. (305) 634-7741
¥ CANTERBURY HOUSE - 330 Maynard S, Ann Arbor, Michigan (313) 665-0606
¥ THE LISTENING EAR - 547 E. Grand River, East Lansing, Michigan (517) 337
-1717
¥ THE ECSTATIC UMBRELLA - 3800 McGee Kansas City, Missouri (816) 561-4524
¥ OPEN CITY - 4726 3rd St., Detroit, Michigan (313) 831-2770
¥ SWITCHBOARD INC. - 1722 Summit St., Number 6, Columbus, Ohio (614) 294-6
378
¥ HELP - c/o Marby Beil, 1708 E. Lafayette, Number 5, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(414) 273-5959 ¥ UNITED CHURCH PRESBYTERIAN - 181 Mount Horeb Rd., Warren
, N.J. (201) 469-5044
¥ BOSTON SWITCHBOARD - 45 Bowdoin St., Boston, Mass. (617) 246-4255
¥ PROJECT PLACE - 37 Rutland St., Boston, Mass.(617)267-5280
¥ BEVERLY SWITCHBOARD - Beverly Hospital, Beverly, Mass. (617) 922-0000
¥ FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ACTON - 8 Concord Rd., Acton, Mass. (617)
263-3940
¥ HALF WAY HOUSE - 20 Linwood Sq., Roxbury, Mass. (617) 442-7591
¥ ACID - 13 Linden Ave., Malden, Mass. (617) 342-2218
¥ PROJECT ASSIST - 945 Great Plain Ave., Needham, Mass. (617) 444-1902& 3
¥ LEXINGTON - ARLINGTON HOT LINE - 1912 Mass. Ave., Lexington, Mass. (617)
862-8130&1
¥ COMMUNITY YOUTH COMMISSION - 945 Great Plain Ave., Needham, Mass. (617)
444-1795
¥ HOT LINE - 429 Cherry St., West Newton, Mass. (617) 969-5906Other Countr
ies
¥ BINARY INFORMATION TRANSFER - 141 Westbourne Park Rd., London W2, Englan
d. Ask overseas operator for London 222-8219
¥ CANADIAN SWITCHBOARD - 282 Rue Ste. Catherine, West, Montreal, Quebec, C
anada (514) 866-2672
For a complete and up-to-date list of switchboards and similar projects
around the country, write to San Francisco Switchboard. They need 25 cents to co
ver postage costs.
GUERRILLA BROADCASTING
GUERRILLA RADIO
Under FCC Low Power Transmission Regulations, it is legal to broadcast o
n the AM band without even obtaining a license, if you transmit with 100 milliwa
tts of power or less on a free band space that doesn't interfere with a licensed
station. You are further allowed up to a 12-foot antenna or the use of carrier-
current transmission (regular electric wall outlets). Using this legal set-up, y
ou can broadcast from a 2 to 20 block radius depending on how high up you can lo
cate your antenna and the density of tall buildings in the area.Carrier-current
broadcasting consists of plugging the transmitter into a regular wall socket. It
draws power in the same way as any other electrical appliance, and feeds its si
gnal into the power line allowing the broadcast to be heard on any AM radio tune
d into the operating frequency. The transmitter can be adjusted to different fre
quencies until a clear band is located. The signal will travel over the electric
al wiring until it hits a transformer where it will be erased. The trouble with
this method is that in large cities, almost every large office or apartment buil
ding has a transformer. You should experiment with this method first, but if you
are in a city, chances are you'll need an antenna rigged up on the roof. Anythi
ng over twelve feet is illegal, but practice has shown that the FCC won't hassle
you if you don't have commercials and refrain from interfering with licensed br
oadcasts. There are some cats in Connecticut broadcasting illegally with a 100-f
oot antenna over a thirty mile radius for hours on end and nobody gives them any
trouble. Naturally if you insist upon using dirty language, issuing calls to re
volution, broadcasting bombing information, interfering with above ground statio
ns and becoming too well known, the FCC is going to try and knock you out. There
are penalties that have never been handed out of up to a year in jail. It's pos
sible you could get hit with a conspiracy rap, which could make it a felony, but
the opinion of movement lawyers now is a warning if you're caught once, and a p
ossible fine with stiffer penalties possible for repeaters that are caught.If it
gets really heavy, you could still broadcast for up to 15 minutes without being
pin-pointed by the FCC sleuths. By locating your equipment in a panel truck and
broadcasting from a fixed roof antenna, you can make it almost impossible for t
hem to catch you by changing positions.There has been a variety of transmitting
equipment used, and the most effective has been found to be an AM transmitter ma
nufactured by
Low Power Broadcasting Co., 520 Lincoln Highway,
Frazer, Penn. 19355.
Call Dick Crompton at (215 NI 4-4096. The right transmitter will run about $200
. If you plan to use carrier-current transmission you'll also need a capacitor t
hat sells for $30. An antenna can be made out of aluminum tubing and antenna wir
ing available at any TV radio supply store (see diagram). You'll also need a goo
d microphone that you can get for about $10. Naturally, equipment for heavier br
oadcasting is available if a member of your group has a license or good connecti
ons with someone who works in a large electronics supply house. Also with a good
knowledge in the area you can build a transmitter for a fraction of the purchas
e price. You can always employ tape recorders, turntables and other broadcasting
hardware depending on how much bread you have, how much stuff you have to hide
(i.e., how legal your operation is) and the type of broadcasting you want to do.
It is possible to extend your range by sending a signal over the telephone lines
to other transmitters which will immediately rebroadcast. Several areas in a ci
ty could be linked together and even from one city to another. Theoretically, if
enough people rig up transmitters and antennas at proper locations and everyone
operates on the same band, it is possible to build a nation-wide people's netwo
rk that is equally theoretically legal.Broadcasting, it should be remembered, is
a one-way transmission of information. Communications which allow you to transm
it and receive are illegal without a license (ham radio).
GUERRILLA TELEVISION
There are a number of outlaw radio projects going on around the country.
Less frequent, but just as feasible, is a people's television network. Presentl
y there are three basic types of TV systems: Broadcast, which is the sending of
signals directly from a station's transmitter to home receiver sets; Cable, wher
e the cable company employees extremely sensitive antenna to pick up broadcast t
ransmissions and relay them and/or they originate and send them; and thirdly, Cl
osed Circuit TV, such as the surveillance cameras in supermarkets, banks and apa
rtment house lobbies.The third system as used by the pigs is of little concern,
unless we are interested in not being photographed. The cameras can be temporari
ly knocked out of commission by flashing a bright light (flashbulb, cigarette li
ghter, etc.) directly in front of its lens. For our own purposes, closed-circuit
TV can be employed for broadcasting rallies, rock concerts or teach-ins to othe
r locations. The equipment is not that expensive to rent and easy to operate. Ju
st contact the largest television or electronics store in your area and ask abou
t it. There are also closed-circuit and cable systems that work in harmony to br
oadcast special shows to campuses and other institutions. Many new systems are b
eing developed and will be in operation soon.Cable systems as such are in use on
ly in a relatively few areas. They can be tapped either at the source or at any
point along the cable by an engineer freak who knows what to do. The source is t
he best spot, since all the amplification and distribution equipment of the syst
em is available at that point. Tapping along the cable itself can be a lot hairi
er, but more frustrating for the company when they try to trace you down.Standar
d broadcasting that is received on almost all living room sets works on an RF (r
adio frequency) signal sent out on various frequencies which correspond to the c
hannels on the tuner. In no area of the country are all these channels used. Thi
s raises important political questions as to why people do not have the right to
 broadcast on unused channels. By getting hold of a TV camera (Sony and Panasoni
c are the best for the price) that has an RF output, you can send pictures to a
TV set simply by placing the camera cable on or near the antenna of the receiver
set. When the set is operating on the same channel as the camera, it will show
what the camera sees. Used video tape recorders such as the Sony CV series that
record and play back audio and video information are becoming more available. Th
ese too can be easily adapted to send RF signals the same as a live camera.Wheth
er or not the program to be broadcasted is live or on tape, there are three step
s to be taken in order to establish a people's TV network. First, you must conve
rt the video and audio signals to an RF frequency modulated (FM) signal correspo
nding to the desired broadcast channel. We suggest for political and technical r
easons that you pick one of the unused channels in your area to begin experiment
ing. The commercial stations have an extremely powerful signal and can usually o
verride your small output. Given time and experience you might want to go into d
irect competition with the big boys on their own channel. It is entirely possibl
e, say in a 10 to 20 block radius, to interrupt a presidential press-conference
with more important news. Electronic companies, such as Jerrold Electronics Corp
., 4th and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., make equipment that can RF both video
and audio information onto specific channels. The device you'd be interested in
is called a cable driver or RF modulator. When the signal is in the RF state,
it is already possible to broadcast very short distances. The second step is to
amplify the signal so it will reach as far as possible. A linear amplifier of th
e proper frequency is required for this job. The stronger the amplifier the fart
her and more powerful the signal. A 10-watt job will cover approximately 5 miles
(line of sight) in area. Linear amplifiers are not that easily available, but t
hey can be constructed with some electrical engineering knowledge. The third ste
p is the antenna, which if the whole system is to be mobile to avoid detection,
is going to involve some experimentation and possible camouflage. Two things to
keep in mind about an antenna are that it should be what is technically referred
to as a "di-pole" antenna (see diagram) and since TV signals travel on line of
sight, it is important to place the antenna as high as possible. Although it has
n't been done in practice, it certainly is possible to reflect pirate signals of
f an make equipment that can RF both video and audio existing antenna of a comme
rcial network. This requires a full knowledge of broadcasting; however, any amat
eur can rig up an antenna, attach it to a helium balloon and get it plenty high.
For most, the roof of a tall building will suffice. If you're really uptight ab
out your operation, the antenna can be hidden with a fake cardboard chimney.We r
ealize becoming TV guerrillas is not everyone's trip, but a small band with a fe
w grand can indeed pull it off. There are a lot of technical freaks hanging arou
nd recording studios, guitar shops, hi-fi stores and engineering schools that ca
n be turned on to the project. By showing them the guidelines laid out here, the
y can help you assemble and build various components that are difficult to purch
ase (i.e., the linear amplifier). Naturally, by building some of the components,
the cost of the operation is kept way down. Equipment can be purchased in selec
tive electronics stores. You'll need a camera, VTR, RF modulator, linear amplifi
er and antenna. Also a generator, voltage regulator and an alternator if you wan
t the station to be mobile. One of the best sources of information on both telev
ision and radio broadcasting is the Radio Amateur's Handbook published by the Am
erican Radio Relay League, Newington, Conn. 06611 and available for $4.50. The h
andbook gives a complete course in electronics and the latest information on all
techniques and equipment related to broadcasting. Back issues have easy to read
do-it-yourself TV transmitter diagrams and instructions. Also available is a pu
blication called Radical Software, put out by Raindance Corp., 24 E. 22nd St., N
ew York, N.Y., with the latest info on all types of alternative communications.
Guerrilla TV is the vanguard of the communications revolution, rather than the a
vant-garde cellophane light shows and the weekend conferences. One pirate pictur
e on the sets in Amerika's living rooms is worth a thousand wasted words. With t
he fundamentals in this field mastered, you can rig up all sorts of shit. Cheap
twenty-dollar tape recorders can be purchased and outfitted with a series of sma
ll loud-speakers. Concealed in a school auditorium or other large hall, such a s
ystem can blast out any message or music you wish to play. The administration wi
ll go insane trying to locate the operation if it is well hidden. We know two ca
ts who rigged a church with this type of setup and a timing device. Right in the
middle of the sermon, on came Radio Heaven and said stuff like "Come on preache
r, this is God, you don't believe all that crap now, do you?" It made for an exc
iting Sunday service, all right. You can build a miniature transmitter and with
a small magnet attach it to the underbelly of a police car to keep track of wher
e it's going. This would only be practical in a small town or on a campus where
there are only a few security guards or patrol vehicles. If you rigged a small t
ape recorder to the transmitter and tuned it to a popular AM band, the patrol ca
r as it rode around could actually broadcast the guerrilla message you prerecord
ed. Wouldn't they be surprised when they found out how you did it? You can get a
"Bumper Beeper" and receiver that are constructed by professionals for use by p
rivate detectives. The dual unit costs close to $400. If you've got that kind of
bread, you can write John Bomar, 6838 No. 3rd Ave., Phoenix, Arizona 85013 for
a catalogue and literature. Even though there are laws governing the area of sne
aky surveillance, telephone taps, tracking devices and the like, a number of ent
erprising firms produce an unbelievable array of electronic hardware that allows
you to match Big Brother's ears and eyes. Sugar cube transmitters, tie clasp mi
crophones, phone taps, tape recorders that work in a hollowed-out book and other
Brave New World equipment is available from the following places. Send for thei
r catalogues just to marvel at the level of technology. R. B. Clifton, 1150 NW 7
th Ave., Miami, Fla. 33168; Electrolab Corp., Bank of Stateboro Building, Stateb
oro, Ga. 30458; or Tracer Investigative Products, Inc., 256 Worth. Ave., Palm, B
each, Fla. 33482.By the way, you can pick up Radio Hanoi on a short wave radio e
very day from 3:00 to 3:30 PM at 15013 kilocycles on the 19 meter band.
Demonstrations
Demonstrations always will be an important form of protest. The structure can va
ry from a rally or teach-in to a massive civil disobedience such as the confront
ing of the warmakers at the Pentagon or a smoke-in. A demonstration is different
from other forms of warfare because it invites people other than those planning
the action via publicity to participate. It also is basically non-violent in na
ture. A complete understanding of the use of media is necessary to create the pu
blicity needed to get the word out. Numbers of people are only one of the many f
actors in an effective demonstration. The timing, choice of target and tactics t
o be employed are equally important. There have been demonstrations of 400,000 t
hat are hardly remembered and demonstrations of a few dozen that were remarkably
effective. Often the critical element involved is the theater. Those who say a
demonstration should be concerned with education rather than theater don't under
stand either and will never organize a successful demonstration, or for that mat
ter, a successful revolution. Publicity includes everything from buttons and lea
flets to press conferences. You should be in touch with the best artists you can
locate to design the visual props. Posters can be silk screened very cheaply an
d people can be taught to do it in a very short time. Buttons have to be purchas
ed. The cheapest are those printed directly on the metal. The paint rubs off aft
er a while, but they are ideal for mass demonstrations. You can print 10,000 for
about $250.00. Leaflets, like posters, should be well designed. One way of gett
ing publicity is to negotiate with the city for permits. Again, this raises poli
tical questions, but there is not doubt one reason for engaging in permit discus
sions is for added publicity. The date, time and place of the demonstration all
have to be chosen with skill. Know the projected weather reports. Pick a time an
d day of the week that are convenient to most people. Make sure the place itself
adds some meaning to the message. Don't have a demonstration just because that'
s the way it's always been done. It is only one type of weapon and should be use
d as such. On the other hand, don't dismiss demonstrations because they have alw
ays turned out boring. You and your group can plan a demonstration within the de
monstration more accurately. Also don't tend to dismiss demonstrations outright
because the repression is too great. During World War II the Danes held street d
emonstrations against the Nazis who occupied their country. Even today there are
public demonstrations against the Vietnam War in downtown Saigon. Repression is
there, but overestimating it is more a tactical blunder than the reverse. None
the less, it's wise to go to all demonstrations prepared for a vamping by the pi
gs.
DRESS
Most vamping is accompanied by clubbing, rough shoving and dragging, gassing and
occasional buckshot or rifle fire. The clothing you wear should offer you the b
est protection possible, yet be light weight enough to allow you to be highly mo
bile. CS and CN are by far the most commonly employed tear gas dispersibles. Occ
asionally they are combined with pepper gas to give better results. Pepper gas i
s a nerve irritant that affects exposed areas of the skin. Clothing that is tigh
t fitting and covers as much of the body surface as possible is advisable. This
also offers some protection if you are dragged along the ground. Gloves come in
handy as protection and if you want to pick up gas canisters and throw them back
at the pigs or chuck them through a store window. Your shoes should be high sne
akers for running or boots for kicking. Hiking boots sold in army surplus stores
serve both purposes and are your best selection for street action. Men should w
ear a jock strap or protective cup. Rib guards can be purchased for about $6.00
at any sporting goods store. Shoulder pads and leg pads are also available, but
unless you expect heavy fighting and are used to wearing this clumsy street armo
r, you'll be better off without it.
HELMETS
Everyone should have a helmet. Your head sticks out above the swarming crowd and
dents like a tin can. Protect it! The type of helmet you get depends on what yo
u can afford and how often you'll be using it. The cheapest helmet available is
a heavy steel tank model. This one is good because it offers ear protection and
has a built-in suspension system to absorb the blow. It is also bullet proof. It
's disadvantages are that it only comes in large sizes and is the heaviest thing
you'll ever have on your head. It costs about $3.00. For $5.00 you can get a Ci
vil Defense helmet made for officers. It's much lighter, but doesn't offer prote
ction for the ears. It has a good suspension system. If you get this model, pain
t it a dark color before using it and you'll be less conspicuous. Our fashion co
nsultants suggest anarchy black. Construction helmets or "hard hats" run between
$8.00 and $10.00, depending on the type of suspension system and material used.
They are good for women because they are extremely lightweight. The aluminum on
es dent if struck repeatedly and the fiberglass type can crack. Also they offer
no ear protection. If you prefer one of these you should find a way to attach a
chin or neck strap so you won't lose it while you run. If you get a hard hat, ma
ke sure you remove the hard head before you take it home. Probably the all-aroun
d good deal for the money is the standard M-1 Army issue helmet. These vary in q
uality and price, depending on age and condition. They run from $2.00 to $10.00
. Make sure the one you get has a liner with webbing that fits well or is adjust
able and has a chin strap. Their main disadvantage is that they are bulky and he
avy.The snappiest demonstrators use the familiar motorcycle crash helmet. They a
re the highest in price, running from $10.00 to as high as $40.00. Being made of
fiberglass, they are extremely lightweight. They have a heavy-duty strap built
in and they can be gotten to fit quite snugly around the head. They offer excell
ent ear protection. The foam rubber insulation is better than a webbing system,
and will certainly cushion most blows. Being made of fiberglass, a few have been
known to crack under repeated blows, but that is extremely rare. Most come with
plastic face guards that offer a little added protection. Get only those with r
emovable ones since you might want to make use of a gas mask.
GAS MASKS
Ski goggles or the face visor on a crash helmet will protect against Mace but wi
ll offer no protection against the chemical warfare gasses being increasingly us
ed by pigs to dispose crowds. For this protection you'll need a gasmask. All the
masks discussed give ideal protection against the gasses mentioned in the chart
if used properly. If you do not have a gas mask, you should at least get a supp
ly of surgical masks from a hospital supply store and a plastic bag filled with
water and a cloth. The familiar World War II Army gas mask with the filter in a
long nose unit sells new (which is the only way gas masks can be sold) for about
$5.00. Its disadvantages are that it doesn't cover the whole face, is easy to g
rab and pull off and the awkwardly placed filter makes running difficult. The Of
ficer Civil Defense unit sells for the same price and overcomes the disadvantage
s of the World War II Army model. Most National Guard units use this type of mas
k. It offers full face protection, is lightweight and the filter canister is con
veniently located. Also the adjustable straps make for a nice tight fit. The U.S
.A. Protective Field Combat Mask M9A1 offers the same type protection as the OCD
, but costs twice as much. Its advantage is that you can get new filter canister
s when the chemicals in the one you are using becomes ineffective. New filters c
ost about $1.50. When you buy a mask, be sure and inquire if the filter has repl
acements. To get maximum efficiency out of a mask it needs an active chemical fi
lter. The U.S. Navy ND Mark IV Mask is the most effective gas mask available. It
has replaceable filter canisters and fits snugly to the head. It costs about $1
2.00. Its disadvantage is its dual tube filter system, which is somewhat bulky.
Fix it so the canister rests on the back of your needs. It's more difficult to g
rab and easier to run. When you get your gas mask home, try it out to get the fe
eling of using it. Make sure the fit is good and snug. Purchase an anti-fog clot
h for 25 cents where you got the mask. Wipe the inside of the eye pieces before
wearing to prevent the glasses from clouding. Another good reason for wearing a
mask is that it offers anonymity. Helmets, gas masks and a host of other valuabl
e equipment are available at any large Army-Navy surplus store. Kaufman's Surplu
s and Arms, Inc., 623 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10012 is very well stocked. For 7
5 cents you can get their catalogue and order through the mail. It's in New York
though and probably more expensive than a store in your locale. The surplus sto
res buy from wholesale distributors themselves, who in turn buy directly from th
e military. If you know a soldier or someone who is married to a soldier, they h
ave access to the Post Dispensary or PX and can get all sorts of stuff at nothin
g prices. For 20 cents you can get an invaluable pamphlet from the Government P
rinting Office called How to Buy Surplus Personal Property. It has a complete li
st of regional surplus wholesalers. The closest one in the Northeast is the Nava
l Supply Center, Building 652, U.S. Naval Base, Philadelphia, Pa. and in Norther
n California, the Naval Supply Center, Building 502, Oakland, California. You ca
n order by mail or in person and the prices are very low, even though it isn't a
s good as the stuff our brothers and sisters in the Viet Cong rip-off.
WALKIE-TALKIES
You should always go to a demonstration in a small group that stays in contact w
ith each other until the demonstration is over. One way to keep in touch is to u
se walkie-talkies. No matter how heavy the vamping gets or how spread out are th
e crowds, you'll be able to communicate with these lightweight effective portabl
e devices. The only disadvantage is cost. A half decent unit costs at least $18.
00. It should have a minimum of 9 transistors and 100 milliwatts, although walki
e-talkies can go as high as 5 watts and broadcast over 2 miles. Anything under 1
watt will not broadcast over ¸ mile and considerably less in an area with tall bu
ildings. The best unit you can buy runs about $300.00. If you ever deck a pig, s
teal his walkie-talkie even before you take his gun. A good rule is to avoid the
bargain gyp-joints and go to a place that deals in electronic equipment. The im
portant thing to realize about all walkie-talkie networks is that if anyone can
talk, anyone else can listen and vice versa. This applies to pigs as well as us.
All walkie-talkies work on the Civilian Band which has 23 channels. The cheaper
units are preset to channel 9 or 11. The pigs broadcast on higher channels, usu
ally channel 22. More expensive sets can operate on alternative channels. By rem
oving the front of the set, you can adjust the transmitter and receiver to pick
up and receive police communications. Don't screw around with the inside though,
unless you know what you are doing. Allied Radio, 100 N. Western Ave., Chicago,
Illinois 60680, will send you a good free catalogue, as will most large electro
nic stores. Consider buying a number of sets and ask about group discounts. Prac
tice a number of times before you actually use walkie-talkies in real action. De
velop code names and words just like the pigs do. Once you get acquainted with t
his method of communications in the streets, you'll never get cut off from the a
ction. Watch out in close combat though. The pigs always try to smash any electr
onic gear.
OTHER EQUIPMENT
A sign can be used to ward off blows. Staple it to a good strong pole th
at you can use as a weapon if need be. Chains make good belts, as do garrisons w
ith the buckles sharpened. A tightly rolled-up magazine or newspaper also can be
used as a defensive weapon. Someone in your group should carry a first aid kit.
A Medical Emergency Aeronautic Kit, which costs about $5.00 has a perfect carry
ing bag for street action. Ideally you should visit the proposed site of the dem
onstration before it actually takes place. This way you'll have an idea of the t
errain and the type of containment the police will be using. Someone in your gro
up should mimeograph a map of the immediate vicinity which each person should ca
rry. Alternative actions and a rendezvous point should be worked out. Everyone s
hould have two numbers written on their arm, a coordination center number and th
e number of a local lawyer or legal defense committee. You should not take your
personal phone books to demonstrations. If you get busted, pigs can get mighty N
osy when it comes to phone books. Any sharp objects can be construed as weapons.
Women should not wear earrings or other jewelry and should tie their hair up to
tuck it under a helmet. Wear a belt that you can use as a tourniquet. False tee
th and contact lenses should be left at home if possible. You can choke on false
teeth if you receive a sharp blow while running. Contact lenses can complicate
eye damage if gas or Mace is used. If it really looks heavy, you might want to p
ick up on a lightweight adjustable bullet-proof vest, available for $14.95 from
Surplus Distributors, Inc., 6279 Van Nuys Blvd., Van Nuys, California 91401. Rem
ember what the Boy Scouts say when they go camping: "Be Prepared". When you go t
o demonstrations you should be prepared for a lot more than speeches. The pigs w
ill be.
Trashing
Ever since the Chicago pigs brutalized the demonstrators in August of 1968, youn
g people have been read to vent their rage over Amerika's inhumanity by using mo
re daring tactics than basic demonstrations. There is a growing willingness to d
o battle with the pigs in the streets and at the same time to inflict property d
amage. It's not exactly rioting and it's not exactly guerrilla warfare; it has c
ome to be called "Trashing." Most trashing is of a primitive nature with the pig
s having the weapon and strategy advantage. Most trashers rely on quick young le
gs and a nearby rock. By developing simple gang strategy and becoming acquainted
with some rudimentary weapons and combat techniques, the odds can be shifted co
nsiderably. Remember, pigs have small brains and move slowly. All formations, si
gnals, codes and other procedures they use have to be uniform and simplistic. Th
e Army Plan for Containment and Control of Civil Disorders, published by the Gov
ernment Printing Office, contains the basic thinking for all city, county and st
ate storm troopers. A trip to the library and a look at any basic text in crimin
ology will help considerably in gaining an understanding of how pigs act in the
street. If you study up, you'll find you can, with the aid of a bullhorn or prop
erly adjusted walkie-talkie, fuck up many intricate pig formations. "Left flank-
right turn!" said authoritatively into a bullhorn pointed in the right direction
will yield all sorts of wild results. You should trash with a group using a bud
dy system to keep track of each other. If someone is caught by a pig, other shou
ld immediately rush to the rescue if it's possible to do so without sustaining t
oo many losses. If an arrest is made, someone from your gang should take respons
ibility for seeing to it that a lawyer and bail bread are taken care of. Never a
bandon a member of your gang. Avoid fighting in close quarters. You run less ris
k by throwing an object than by personally delivering the blow with a weapon you
hold in your hand. We suppose this is what pigs refer to as "duty fighting." Al
l revolutionaries fight dirt in the eyes of the oppressors. The British accused
the Minutemen of Lexington and Concord of fighting dirty by hiding behind trees.
The U.S. Army accuses the Viet Cong of fighting dirty when they rub a pointed b
amboo shoot in infected shit and use it as a land mine. Mayor Daley says the Yip
pies squirted hair spray and used golf balls with spikes in them against his inn
ocent blue boys. No one ever accused the U.S. of being sneaky for using an airfo
rce in Southeast Asia or the Illinois State Attorney's office of fighting dirty
when it murdered Fred Hampton and Mark Clark while they lay in bed. We say: all
power to the dirty fighters!
WEAPONS FOR STREET FIGHTING
Spray Cans
These are a very effective and educating method of property destruction.
If a liberated zone has been established or you find yourself on a quiet street
away from the thick of things, pretty up the neighborhood. Slogans and symbols
can be sprayed on rough surfaces such as brick or concrete walls that are a real
bitch to remove unless expensive sandblasting is used.
The Slingshot
This is probably the ideal street weapon for the swarms of little Davids that ar
e out to down the Goliaths of Pigdom. It is cheap, legal to carry, silent, fast-
loading and any right size rock will do for a missile. You can find them at hobb
y shops and large sporting goods stores, especially those that deal in hunting s
upplies. Wrist-Rocket makes a powerful and accurate slingshot for $2.50. The Wha
mo Sportsman is not as good but half the price. By selecting the right "Y" shape
d branch, you can fashion a home-made one by using a strip of rubber cut from th
e inner tube of a tue as the sling. A few hours of shooting stones at cans in th
e back yard or up on the roof will make you marksman enough for those fat bank w
indows and even fatter pigs.
Slings
A sling is a home-made weapon consisting of two lengths of heavy-duty cord each
attached securely at one end to a leather patch that serves as a pocket to cradl
e the rock. Place the rock in the pouch and grab the two pieces of cord firmly i
n your hand. Whirl the rock round and round until gravity holds it firmly in the
pouch. When you feel you have things under control, let one end of the cord go
and the rock will fly out at an incredible speed. You should avoid using the sli
ng in a thick crowd (rooftop shooting is best). Practice is definitely needed to
gain any degree of accuracy.
Boomerangs
The boomerang is a neat weapon for street fighting and is as easy to master as t
he Frisbee. There is a great psychological effect in using exotic weapons such a
s this. You can buy one at large hobby stores. On the East Coast you can get one
from Sportscraft, Bergenfield, New Jersey, for $2.69, and on the West Coast fro
m Whamo, 835 El Monte St., San Gabriel, Calif., for $1.10.Flash GunsElectric bat
tery-operated flash guns are available that will blind a power-crazy pig, thus d
istracting him long enough to rescue a captured comrade. Check out camping and b
oating supply stores.
Tear Gas and Mace
Personalized tear gas and mace dispensers are available for self-defense against
muggers. Well, isn't a pig just an extra vicious mugger? Write J.P. Darby, 8813
New Hyde Park, New York, N.Y. 11040 for a variety of types and prices. Tear gas
shells are available for 12 gauge shotguns and .38 Special handguns, but it is
highly inadvisable to bring guns to street actions. A far better weapon is a spe
cially built projection device that shoots tear gas shells. Hercules Gas-Munitio
ns Corp., 5501 No. Broadway, Chicago, Ill., sells compact units complete with ca
rtridges for $6.95 that will fire up to 20 feet. Penguin Associates, Inc., Penns
ylvania Avenue, Malvern, Penn., also has a variety of tear-gas propellant device
s including a combination tear gas-billyclub item. All these companies will supp
ly a catalogue and price list on request. Some states have laws against civilian
use of tear gas devices. New York is one of them, and unfortunately these compa
nies will not ship to states that forbid usage. If you want any of these items,
and your state has restrictions, have a sister or brother in a neighboring state
order for you. Just latching onto these catalogues can be a trip and a half in
terms of getting your imagination hopping. For example Raid, Black Flag and othe
r insecticides shoot a 7 to 10 foot stream that burns the eyes. You can also dis
solve Drano in water and squirt it from an ordinary plastic water pistol. That m
akes a highly effective defensive weapon. A phony letterhead of a Civil Defense
unit will help in getting heavier anti-personal weapons of a defensive nature.
Anti-Tire
Weapons Don't believe all those bullshit tire ads that make tires seem like the
Superman of the streets. Roofing nails spread out on the street are effective in
stopping a patrol car. A nail sticking out from a strong piece of wood wedged u
nder a rear tire will work as effectively as a bazooka. An ice pick will do the
trick repeatedly but you've got to have a strong arm to strike home. Sugar in th
e gas tank of a pig vehicle will really fuck-up the engine.
Authentic Pig Game
If you really get into it, you'll probably want to be sd heavily prepared for tr
ashing as are the pigs. Wouldn't you just know that the largest supplier of equi
pment to police in the world is in Chicago. Kale's, 550 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicag
o, Ill. 60607, will send you, on request, the most complete catalogue you can ge
t for trashing. Actual police uniforms, super-riot helmets, persuaders chemical
mace, a knuckle sap, which is a glove with powdered lead, billy clubs, secret ho
lsters, a three-in-one mob stick that spits Mace, emits an electric shock and al
lows you to club to death a charging rhinoceros. You can also get the latest in
handcuffs and other security devices. This catalogue is a must for the love-chil
d of the 70's. If we want to get high we're going to have to fight our way up.
KNIFE FIGHTING
Probably one of the most favored street weapons of all time is the good
old "shiv," "blade," "toe-jabber" or whatever you choose to call a good sticker.
Remembering that today's pig is tomorrow's bacon, it's good to know a few handy
slicing tips. The first thing to learn is the local laws regarding the possessi
on of knives. The laws on possession are of the "Catch-22" vagueness. Cops can a
rrest you for having a small pocket knife and claim you have a concealed and dea
dly weapon in your possession. Here, as in most cases of law, it's not what you
are doing, it's who's doing the what that counts. All areas, however, usually ha
ve a limit on length such as blades under 4" or 6" are legal and anything over t
hat length concealed on a person can be considered illegal. Asking some hip lawy
ers can help here. Unfortunately, the best fighting knives are illegal. Switchbl
ades (and stilettos) because they can so quickly spring into operation, are grea
t weapons that are outlawed in all states. If you want to risk the consequences,
however, you can readily purchase these weapons once you learn how to contact t
he criminal underworld or in most foreign countries. If both of these fail, go t
o any pawnshop, look in the window, and take our choice of lethal, illegal knive
s. A flat gravity knife, available in most army surplus and pawn shops would be
the best type available in regular over-the-counter buying. It's flat style make
s for easy concealment and comfort when kept in a pocket or boot. It can be grea
sed and the rear "heel" of the blade can be filed down to make it fly open with
a flick of the wrist. A little practice here will be very useful. Most inexperie
nced knife fighters use a blade incorrectly. Having seen too many Jim Bowies sla
sh their way through walls of human flesh, they persist in carrying on this inan
e tradition. Overhead and uppercut slashes are a waste of energy and blade power
. The correct method is to hold the knife in a natural, firm grip and jab straig
ht ahead at waist level with the arm extending full length each time. This fenci
ng style allows for the maximum reach of arm and blade. By concentrating the poi
nt of the knife directly at the target, you make defense against such an attack
difficult. Work out with this jabbing method in front of a mirror and in a few d
ays you'll get it down pretty well.
UNARMED DEFENSE
Let's face it, when it comes to trashing in the streets, our success is
going to depend on our cunning and speed rather than our strength and power. Our
side is all quarterbacks, and the pigs have nothing but linemen. They are clums
y, slobbish brutes that would be lost without their guns, clubs and toy whistles
. When one grabs you for an arrest, you can with a little effort, make him let g
o. In the confusion of all the street action, you will then be able to manage yo
ur getaway. There are a variety of defensive twists and pulls that are easy to m
aster by reading a good, easily understandable book on the subject, such as Geor
ge Hunter's How To Defend Yourself (see appendix). If a pig grabs you by the wri
st you can break the grip by twisting against his thumb. Try this on yourself by
grabbing one wrist with your hand. See how difficult it is to hold someone who
works against the thumb. If he grabs you around the waist or neck, you can grab
his thumbs or another finger and sharply bend it backwards. By concentrating all
your energy on one little finger, you can inflict pain and cause the grip to be
broken. There are a variety of points on the body where a firm amount of pressu
re skillfully directed will induce severe pain. A grip, for example, can be brok
en by jabbing your finger firmly between the pig's knuckles. (Nothing like chopp
ed pigknuckles.) Feel directly under your chin in back of the jawbone until your
finger rests in the V area, press firmly upward and backward towards the center
of the head. There is also a very vulnerable spot right behind the ear lobe. St
ick your fingers there and see. Get the point!In addition to pressure points, th
ere are places in the body where a sharp, well-directed whack with the side of a
rigidly held palm can easily disable a person. Performed by an expert, such a b
low can even be lethal. Try making such a rigid palm and practice these judo cho
ps. The fist is a ridiculous weapon to use. It's fleshy, the blow is distributed
over too wide an area to have any real effect and the knuckles break easily. Yo
u will have to train yourself to use judo chops instinctively, but it will prove
quite worthwhile if you are ever in trouble. A good place to aim for is directl
y in the center of the chest cavity at its lowest point. Draw a straight line up
about six inches starting from your belly button, and you can feel the point. T
he Adam's Apple in the center of the neck and the back of the neck at the top of
the spinal column are also extremely vulnerable spots. With the side of your pa
lm, press firmly the spot directly below your nose and above your upper lip. You
can easily get an idea of what a short, forceful chop in this area would do. Th
e side of the head in front of the ear is also a good place to aim your blow. In
addition to jabs, chops, twists, squeezes and bites, you ought to gain some mas
tery of kneeing and kicking. If you are being held in close and facing the porke
r, the old familiar knee-in-the-nuts will produce remarkable results. A feinting
motion with the head before the knee is delivered will produce a reflexive reac
tion from your opponent that will leave his groin totally unprotected. Ouch! Whe
ther he has you from the front or the back, he is little prepared to defend agai
nst a skillfully aimed kick. The best way is to forcefully scrape the side of yo
ur shoe downward along the shinbone, beginning just below the knee and ending wi
th a hard stomp on the instep of the foot. Just try this with the side of your h
and and you will get an idea of the damage you can inflict with this scrape and
stomp method. Another good place to kick and often the only spot accessible is t
he side of the knee. Even a half successful blow here will topple the biggest of
honkers. Any of these easy to learn techniques of unarmed self defense will ful
fill the old nursery rhyme that goes: Catch a piggy by the toe
When he hollers Let him go Out pops Y-0-U
GENERAL STRATEGY RAP
The guideline in trashing is to try and do as much property destruction
as possible without getting caught or hurt. The best buildings to trash in terms
of not alienating too many of those not yet clued into revolutionary violence,
are the most piggy symbols of violence you can find. Banks, large corporations,
especially those that participate heavily in supporting the U.S. armed forces, f
ederal buildings, courthouses, police stations, and Selective Service centers ar
e all good targets. On campuses, buildings that are noted for warfare research a
nd ROTC training are best. When it comes to automobiles, choose only police vehi
cles and very expensive cars such as Lamborghinis and Iso Grifos. Every rock or
molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random viole
nce produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock? When you know the
re is going to be a rough street scene developing, don't play into the pig's str
ategy. Spread the action out. Help waste the enemy's numbers. You and the other
members of your group should already have a target or two in mind that will make
for easy trashing. If you don't have one, setting fires in trash cans and ringi
ng fire alarms will help provide a cover for other teams that do have objectives
picked out. Putting out street lights with rocks also helps the general infusio
n. After a few tries at trashing, you'll begin to overcome your fears, learn wha
t to expect from both the pigs and your comrades, and develop your own street st
rategy. Nothing works like practice in actual street conditions. Get your head t
ogether and you'll become a pro. Don't make the basic mistake of just naively fl
oating into the area. Don't think "rally" or "demonstration," think "WAR" and "B
attle Zone." Keep your eyes and ears open. Watch for mistakes made by members of
your gang and those made by other comrades. Watch for blunders by the police. I
n street fighting, every soldier should think like a general. Workshops should b
e organized right after an action to discuss the strength and weaknesses of tech
niques and strategies used. Avoid political bullshit at such raps. Regard them a
s military sessions. Persons not versed in the tactics of revolution usually hav
e nothing worthwhile to say about the politics of revolution.
People's Chemistry
STINK BOMB
You can purchase buteric acid at any chemical supply store for "laborato
ry experiments." It can be thrown or poured directly in an area you think alread
y stinks. A small bottle can be left uncapped behind a door that opens into the
target room. When a person enters they will knock over the bottle, spilling t
he liquid. Called a "Froines," by those in the know, an ounce of buteric acid ca
n go a long way. Be careful not to get it on your clothing. A home-made stink bo
mb can be made by mixing a batch of egg whites, Drano, (sodium hydroxide) and wa
ter. Let the mixture sit for a few days in a capped bottle before using.
SMOKE BOMB
Sometimes it becomes strategically correct to confuse the opposition and
provide a smoke screen to aid an escape. A real home-made stroke bomb can be ma
de by combining four parts sugar to six parts saltpeter (available at all chemic
al supply stores). This mixture must then be heated over a very low flame. It wi
ll blend into a plastic substance. When this starts to gel, remove from the heat
and allow the plastic to cool. Embed a few wooden match heads into the mass whi
le it's still pliable and attach a fuse.*The smoke bomb itself is a non-explosiv
e and non-flame-producing, so no extreme safety requirements are needed. About a
pound of the plastic will produce thick enough smoke to fill a city block. Just
make sure you know which way the wind is blowing. Weathermen-women! If you're n
ot the domestic type, you can order smoke flares (yellow or black) for $2.00 a f
lare [12 inch] from Time Square Stage Lighting Co., 318 West 47th Street, New Yo
rk, NY 10036.*You can make a good homemade fuse by dipping a string in glue and
then rolling it lightly in gunpowder. When the glue hardens, wrap the string tig
htly and neatly with scotch tape. This fuse can be used in a variety of ways. We
ight it on one end and drop a rock into the tank of a pig vehicle. Light the oth
er end and run like hell.
CBWLACE (Lysergic Acid Crypto-Ethelene) can be made by mixing LSD with DMSO, a h
igh penetrating agent, and water. Sprayed from an atomizer or squirted from a wa
ter pistol, the purple liquid will send any pig twirling into the Never-Never La
nd of chromosome damage. It produces an involuntary pelvic action in cops that r
esembles fucking. Remember when Mace runs out, turn to Lace.How about coating th
in darts in LSD and shooting them from a Daisy Air Pellet Gun? Guns and darts ar
e available at hobby and sports shops. Sharpening the otherwise dull darts will
help in turning on your prey.
MOLOTOV COCKTAIL
Molotov cocktails are a classic street fighting weapon served up around
the world. If you've never made one, you should try it the next time you are in
some out-of-the-way barren place just to wipe the fear out of your mind and know
 that it works. Fill a thin-walled bottle half full with gasoline. Break up a se
ction of styrofoam (cups made of this substance work fine) and let it sit in the
gasoline for a few days. The mixture should be slushy and almost fill the bottl
e. The styrofoam spreads the flames around and regulates the burning. The mixtur
e has nearly the same properties as napalm. Soap flakes (not detergents) can be
substituted for styrofoam. Rubber cement and sterno also work. In a pinch, plain
gasoline will do nicely, but it burns very fast. A gasoline-kerosene mixture is
preferred by some folks. Throwing, although by far not the safest method, is so
metimes necessary. The classic technique of stuffing a rag in the neck of a bott
le, lighting and tossing is foolish. Often gas fumes escape from the bottle and
the mixture ignites too soon, endangering the thrower. If you're into throwing,
the following is a much safer method: Once the mixture is prepared and inside th
e bottle, cap it tightly using the original cap or a suitable cork. Then wash th
e bottle off with rubbing alcohol and wipe it clean. Just before you leave to st
rike a target, take a strip of rag or a tampax and dip it in gasoline. Wrap this
fuse in a small plastic baggie and attach the whole thing to the neck of the ca
pped bottle with the aid of several rubber bands. When you are ready to toss, us
e a lighter to ignite the baggie. Pall back your arm and fling it as soon as the
tampax catches fire. This is a very safe method if followed to the letter. The
bottle must break to ignite. Be sure to throw it with some force against a hard
surface.Naturally, an even safer method is to place the firebomb in a stationary
position and rig up a timing fuse. Cap tightly and wipe with alcohol as before.
The alcohol wipe not only is a safety factor, but it eliminates tell-tale finge
rprints in case the Molotov doesn't ignite. Next, attach an ashcan fire cracker
(M-80) or a cherry bomb to the side of the bottle using epoxy glue. A fancier wa
y is to punch a hole in the cap and pull the fuse of the cherry bomb up through
the hole before you seal the bottle. A dab of epoxy will hold the fuse in place
and insure the seal. A firecracker fuse ignites quickly so something will have t
o be rigged that will deal the action enough to make a clean getaway. When the f
irebomb is placed where you want it, light up a non-filter cancerette. Take a
few puffs (being sure not to inhale the vile fumes) to get it going and work the
unlighted end over the fuse of the firecracker. This will provide a delay of fr
om 5 to 15 minutes. To use this type of fuse successfully, there must be enough
air in the vicinity so the flame won't go out. A strong wind would not be good e
ither. When the cancerette burns down, it sets off the firecracker which in turn
explodes and ignites the mixture. The flames shoot out in the direction opposit
e to where you attach the firecracker, thus allowing you to aim the firebomb at
the most flammable material. With the firecracker in the cap, the flames spread
downward in a halo. The cancerette fuse can also be used with a book of matches
to ignite a pool of gasoline or a trash can. Stick the unlighted end behind the
row of match heads and close the cover. A firecracker attached to a gallon jug o
f red paint and set off can turn an office into total abstract art. Commercial f
uses are available in many hobby stores. Dynamite fuses are excellent and sold i
n most rural hardware stores. A good way to make a homemade fuse is described ab
ove under the Smoke Bomb section. By adding an extra few feet of fuse to the dev
ice and then attaching the lit cancerette fuse, you add an extra measure of caut
ion. It is most important to test every type of fuse device you plan to use a nu
mber of times before the actual hit. Some experimentation will allow you to stan
dardize the results. If you really want to get the job done right and have the t
ime, place several molotov cocktails in a group and rig two with fuses (in case
one goes out). When one goes, they all go . . .BAROOOOOOOOOOM!
STERNO BOMB
One of the simplest bombs to make is the converted sterno can. It will p
rovide some bang and a widely dispersed spray of jellied fire. Remove the lid fr
om a standard, commercially purchased can and punch a hold in the center big eno
ugh for the firecracker fuse. Take a large spoonful of jelly out of the center t
o make room for the firecracker. Insert the firecracker and pull the fuse up thr
ough the hole in the lid. When in place, cement around the hole with epoxy glue.
Put some more glue around the rim of the can and reseal the lid. Wipe the can a
nd wash off excess with rubbing alcohol. A cancerette fuse should be used. The c
an could also be taped around a bottle with Molotov mixture and ignited.
AEROSOL BOMB
You can purchase smokeless gunpowder at most stores where guns and ammun
ition are sold. It is used for reloading bullets. The back of shotgun shells can
be opened and the powder removed. Black powder is more highly explosive but mor
e difficult to come by. A graduate chemist can make or get all you'll need. If y
ou know one that can be trusted, go over a lot of shit with him. Try turning him
on to learning how to make "plastics" which are absolutely the grooviest explos
ive available. The ideal urban guerrilla weapons are these explosive plastic com
pounds. The neat homemade bomb that really packs a wallop can be made from a reg
ular aerosol can that is empty. Remove the nozzle and punch in the nipple area o
n the top of the can. Wash the can out with rubbing alcohol and let dry. Fill it
gently and lovingly with an explosive powder. Add a layer of cotton to the top
and insert a cherry bomb fuse. Use epoxy glue to hold the fuse in place and seal
the can. The can should be wiped clean with rubbing alcohol. Another safety hin
t to remember is never store the powder and your fuses or other ignition materia
l together. Powder should always be treated with a healthy amount of respect. No
smoking should go on in the assembling area and no striking of hard metals that
might produce a spark. Use your head and you'll get to keep it.
PIPE BOMBS
Perhaps the most widely used homemade concussion bombs are those made ou
t of pipe. Perfected by George Metesky, the reknown New York Mad Bomber, they ar
e deadly, safe, easy to assemble, and small enough to transport in your pocket.
You want a standard steel pipe (two inches in diameter is a good size) that is t
hreaded on both ends so you can cap it. The length you use depends on how big an
explosion is desired. Sizes between 3-10 inches in length have been successfull
y employed. Make sure both caps screw on tightly before you insert the powder. T
he basic idea to remember is that a bomb is simply a hot fire burning very rapid
ly in a tightly confined space. The rapidly expanding gases burst against the wa
lls of the bomb. If they are trapped in a tightly sealed iron pipe, when they fi
nally break out, they do so with incredible force. If the bomb itself is placed
in a somewhat enclosed area like a ventilation shaft, doorway or alleyway, it wi
ll in turn convert this larger area into a "bomb" and increase the over-all expl
osion immensely. When you have the right pipe and both caps selected, drill a ho
le in the side of the pipe (before powder is inserted) big enough to pull the fu
se through. If you are using a firecracker fuse, insert the firecracker, pull th
e fuse through and epoxy it into place securely. If you are using long fusing ei
ther with a detonator (difficult to come by) timing device or a simple cancerett
e fuse, drill two holes and run two lines of fuse into the pipe. When you have t
he fuse rigged to the pipe, you are ready to add the powder. Cape one end snugly
, making sure you haven't trapped any grains of powder in the threads. Wipe the
device with rubbing alcohol and you're ready to blast off. A good innovation is
to grind down one half of the pipe before you insert the powder. This makes the
walls of one end thinner than the walls of the other end. When you place the bom
b, the explosion, following the line of least resistance, will head in that dire
ction. You can do this with ordinary grinding tools available in any hardware or
machine shop. Be sure not to have the powder around when you are grinding the p
ipe, since sparks are produced. Woodstock Nation contains instructions for more
pipe bombs and a neat timing device (see pages 115-117).
GENERAL BOMB STRATEGY
This section is not meant to be a handbook on explosives. Anyone who wis
hes to become an expert in the field can procure a number of excellent books on
the subject catalogued in the Appendix. In bombing, as in trashing, the same gen
eral strategy in regard to the selection of targets applies. Never use anti-pers
onnel shrapnel bombs. Always be careful in placing the devices to keep them away
from glass windows and as far away from the front of the building as possible.
Direct them away from any area in which there might be people. Sophisticated ele
ctric timers should be used only by experts in demolitions. Operate in the wee h
ours of the night and be careful that you don't injure a night watchman or guard
. Telephone in warnings before the bomb goes off. The police record all calls to
emergency numbers and occasionally people have been traced down by the use of a
voice-o-graph. The best way to avoid detection is by placing a huge wad of chew
ed up gum on the roof of your mouth before you talk. Using a cloth over the phon
e is not good enough to avoid detection. Be as brief as possible and always use
a pay phone. When you get books from companies or libraries dealing with explosi
ves or guerrilla warfare, use a phony name and address. Always do this if you ob
tain chemicals from a chemical supply house. These places are being increasingly
watched by the F.B.I. Store your material and literature in a safe cool place a
nd above all, keep your big mouth shut! First Aid For Street Fighters Without in
tending to spook you, we think it is becoming increasingly important for as many
people as possible to develop basic first aid skills. As revolutionary struggle
intensifies, so will the number and severity of injuries increase. Reliance on
establishment medical facilities will become risky. Hospitals that border on "ri
ot" areas are used by police to apprehend suspects. All violence-induced injurie
s treated by establishment doctors might be reported. Knife and gunshot wounds i
n all states by law must be immediately phoned in for investigation. At times a
victim has no choice but to run such risks. If you can, use a phony name, but ev
eryone should know the location of sympathetic doctors. Chaos resulting from th
e gassing, clubbing and shooting associated with a police riot also makes person
al first aid important. Most demonstrations have medical teams that run with the
people and staff mobile units, but often these become the target of assault by
the more vicious pigs. Also, in the confusion, there is usually too much work fo
r the medical teams. Everyone must take responsibility for everyone else if we a
re to survive in the streets. If you spot someone lying unconscious or badly inj
ured, take it upon yourself to help the victim. Immediately raise your arm or wa
ve your Nation flag and shout for a medic. If the person is badly hurt, it is be
st not to move him, or her, but if there is the risk of more harm or the area is
badly gassed, the victim should be moved to safety. Try to be as gentle as poss
ible. Get some people to help you.
WHAT TO DO
Your attitude in dealing with an injured person is extremely important. Don't pa
nic at the sight of blood. Most bloody injuries look far worse than they are. Do
n't get nervous if the victim is unconscious. If you're not able to control your
own fear about treating someone, call for another person. It helps to attend a
few first aid classes to overcome these fears in practice sessions. When you app
roach the victim, identify yourself. Calmly, but quickly figure out what's the m
atter. Check to see if the person is alive by feeling for the pulse. There are a
number of spots to check if the blood is circulating, under the chin near the n
eck, the wrists, and ankles are the most common. Get in the habit of feeling a n
ormal pulse. A high pulse (over 100 per minute) usually indicates shock. A low p
ulse indicates some kind of injury to the heart or nervous system. Massaging the
heart can often restore the heartbeat, especially if its loss is due to a sever
e blow to the chest. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation should be used if the victim i
s not breathing. Both these skills can be mastered in a first aid course in less
than an hour and should become second nature to every street fighter. When it c
omes to dealing with bleeding or possible fractures, enlisting the victim's help
as well as adopting a firm but calm manner will be very reassuring. This is imp
ortant to avoid shock. Shock occurs when there is a serious loss of blood and no
t enough is being supplied to the brain. The symptoms are high pulse rate; cold,
clammy, pale skin; trembling or unconsciousness. Try to keep the patient warm w
ith blankets or coats. If a tremendous amount of blood has been lost, the victim
may need a transfusion. Routine bleeding can be stopped by firm direct pressure
over the source of bleeding for 5 to 10 minutes. If an artery has been cut and
bleeding is severe, a tourniquet will be needed. Use a belt, scarf or torn shirt
sleeve. Tie the tourniquet around the arm or leg directly above the bleeding are
a and tighten it until the bleeding stops. Do not loosen the tourniquet. Wrap th
e injured limb in a cold wet towel or ice if available and move the person to a
doctor or hospital before irreparable damage can occur. Don't panic, though, you
have about six hours. A painful blow to a limb is best treated with an ice pack
and elevation of the extremity by resting it on a pillow or rolled-up jacket. A
severe blow to the chest or side can result in a rib fracture which produces sh
arp pains when breathing and/or coughing up blood. Chest X-rays will eventually
be needed. Other internal injuries can occur from sharp body blows such as kidne
y injuries. They are usually accompanied by nausea, vomiting, shock and persiste
nt abdominal pain. If you feel a bad internal injury has occurred, get prompt pr
ofessional help. Head injuries have to be attended to with more attention than o
ther parts of the body. Treat them by stopping the bleeding with direct pressure
. They should be treated before other injuries as they more quickly can cause sh
ock. Every head injury should be X-rayed and the injured person should be watche
d for the next 24 hours as complications can develop hours after the injury was
sustained. After a severe blow to the head, be on the look-out for excessive sle
epiness or difficulty in waking. Sharp and persistent headaches, vomiting and na
usea, dizziness or difficulty maintaining balance are all warning signs. If they
occur after a head injury, call a doctor. If a limb appears to be broken or fra
ctured, improvise a splint before moving the victim. Place a stiff backing behin
d the limb such as a board or rolled-up magazine and wrap both with a bandage. T
ry to avoid moving the injured limb as this can lead to complicating the fractur
e. Every fracture must be X-rayed to evaluate the extent of the injury and subse
quent treatment. Bullet wounds to the abdomen, chest or head, if loss of conscio
usness occurs are extremely dangerous and must be seen by a doctor immediately.
If the wound occurs in the limb, treat as you would any bleeding with direct pre
ssure bandage and tourniquet only if nothing else will stop the bleeding. If you
expect trouble, every person going to a street scene should have a few minimum
supplies in addition to those mentioned in the section on Demonstrations for pro
tection. A handful of bandaids, gauze pads (4x4), an ace bandage (3 inch width),
and a roll of 1/2 inch adhesive tape can all easily fit in your pocket. A plast
ic bag with cotton balls pre-soaked in water will come in handy in a variety of
situations where gas is being used, as will a small bottle of mineral oil. You s
hould write the name, phone number and address of the nearest movement doctor on
your arm with a ballpoint pen. Your arm's getting pretty crowded, isn't it? If
someone is severely injured, it may be better to save their life by taking them
to a hospital, even though that means probable capture for them, rather than try
to treat it yourself. However, do not confuse the police with the hospital. Man
y injured people have been finished off by the porkers, and that's no joke. It i
s usually better to treat a person yourself rather than let the pigs get them, u
nless they have ambulance equipment right there and don't seem vicious. Even the
n, they will often wait until they get two or three victims before making a trip
to the hospital. If you have a special medical problem, such as being a diabeti
c or having a penicillin allergy, you should wear a medi-alert tag around your n
eck indicating your condition. Every person who sees a lot of street action shou
ld have a tetanus shot at least once in every five years. Know just this much, a
nd it will help to keep down serious injuries at demonstrations. A few lessons i
n a first aid class at one of the Free Universities or People's Clinics will go
a long way in providing you with the confidence and skill needed in the street.
MEDICAL COMMITTEES
Here is a partial list of some Medical Committees for Human Rights. They
will be glad to give you first aid instructions and often organize medical team
s to work demonstrations. A complete list is available from the Chicago office.
¥ BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 21215 - 6012 Wallis Ave.
¥ BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, 94609 - 663 Alcartz
¥ BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35205 - 2122 9th Ave. South
¥ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - 1512 E. 55th St.
¥ CLEVELAND, OHIO, 44112 - Outpost, 13017 Euclid Ave.
¥ DETROIT, MICHIGAN, 48207 - 1300 E. Lafayette
¥ HARTFORD, CONN., 06112 - 161 Ridgefield St.
¥ LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - PO Box 2463, Sepulveda, Calif. 91343 (mail)
¥ NASHVILLE,TENN., 37204 - 3301 Leland Land
¥ NEW HAVEN, CONN., - 30 Bryden Terrace, Hamden, Conn. 06514 (mail)
¥ NEW ORLEANS LA., 70130 - 623 Bourbon St.
¥ NEW YORK, NY 10014 - 15 Charles St.
¥ PHILADELPHIA, PA., 19119 - 6705 Lincoln Drive
¥ PITTSBURGH, PA., 15222 - 617 Empire Building
¥ SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., 94115 - 2519 Pacific Ave.
¥ SYRACUSE, NY, 13210 - 931 Comstock Ave.
¥ WASHINGTON, D.C. - 3410 Taylor St., Chevy Chase, Md. 20015 (mail)
Hip-Pocket Law
LEGAL ADVICE
Any discussion about what to do while waiting fur the lawyer has to be qualified
by pointing out that from the moment of arrest through the court appearances, c
ops tend to disregard a defendant's rights. Nonetheless, you should play it acco
rding to the book whenever possible as you might get your case bounced out on a
technicality. When you get busted, rule number one is that you have the right to
remain silent. We advise that you give only your name and address. There is a l
egal dispute about whether or not you are obligated under the law to do even tha
t, but most lawyers feel you should. The address can be that of a friend if you'
re uptight about the pigs knowing where you live.
When the pigs grab you, chances are they are going to insult you, rough you up a
little and maybe even try to plant some evidence on you. Try to keep your cool.
Any struggle on your part, even lying on the street limp, can be considered res
isting arrest. Even if you beat the original charge, you can be found guilty of
resisting and receive a prison sentence. Often if the pigs beat you, they will s
ay that you attacked them and generally charge you with assault. If you are stop
ped in the street on suspicion (which means you're black or have long hair), the
police have the right to pat you down to see if you are carrying a weapon. They
cannot search you unless they place you under arrest. Technically, this can onl
y be done in the police station where they have the right to examine your posses
sions. Thus, if you are in a potential arrest situation, you should refrain from
carrying dope, sharp objects that can be classified as a weapon, and the names
and phone numbers of people close to you, like your dealer, your local bomb fact
ory, and your friends underground. Forget about talking your way out of it or es
caping once you're in the car or paddy wagon. In the police station, insist on b
eing allowed to call your lawyer. Getting change might be a problem so you shoul
d always have a few dimes hidden. Since many cases are dismissed because of this
, you'll generally be allowed to make some calls, but it might take a few hours.
Call a close friend and tell him to get all the cash that can be quickly raised
and head down to the court house. Usually the police will let you know where yo
u'll be taken. If they don't, just tell your friend what precinct you're being h
eld at, and he can call the central police headquarters and find out what court
you'll be appearing in. Ask your friend to also call a lawyer which you also sho
uld do if you get another phone call. Hang up and dial a lawyer or defense commi
ttee that has been set up for demonstrations. The lawyer will either come to the
station or meet you in court depending on the severity of the charge and the li
kelihood you'll be beaten in the station. When massive demonstrations are occurr
ing where a number of busts are anticipated, it's best to have lawyers placed in
police stations in the immediate vicinity. The lawyer will want to know as many
details as possible of the case so try and concentrate on remembering a number
of things since the pigs aren't going to let you take notes. If you can, remembe
r the name and badge number of the fink that busted you. Sometimes they'll switc
h arresting officers on you. Remember the time, location of the bust and any pot
ential witnesses that the lawyer might be able to contact. If you are unable to
locate a lawyer, don't panic, the court will assign you one at the time of the a
rraignment. Legal Aid lawyers are free and can usually do as good a job as a pri
vate lawyer at an arraignment. Often they can do better, as the judge might set
a lower bail if he sees you can't afford a private lawyer. The arraignment is pr
obably the first place you'll find out what the charges are against you. There w
ill also be a court date set and bail established. The amount of bail depends on
a variety of factors ranging from previous convictions to the judge's hangover.
It can be put up in collateral, i.e., a bank book, or often there is a cash alt
ernative offered which amounts to about 10% of the total bail. Your friend shoul
d be in the court with some cash (at least a hundred dollars is recommended). Fo
r very high bail, there are the bail bondsmen in the area of the courthouse who
will cover the bail for a fee, generally not to exceed 5%. You will need some si
gnatures of solid citizens to sign the bail papers and perhaps put up some colla
teral. Once you get bailed out, you should contact a private lawyer, preferably
one that has experience with your type of case. If you are low on bread, check o
ut one of the community or movement legal groups in your area. It is not advisab
le to keep the legal aid lawyer beyond the arraignment if at all possible. If yo
u're in a car or in your home, the police do not have a right to search the prem
ises without a search warrant or probable cause. Do not consent to any search wi
thout a warrant, especially if there are witnesses around who can hear you. With
out your consent, the pigs must prove probable cause in the court. It's unbeliev
able the number of defendants that not only come naked, but pull their own pants
down. Make the cops kick in the door or break open the trunk themselves. You ar
e under no obligation to assist them in collecting evidence, and helping them we
akens your case.
LAWYERS GROUPS
National Lawyers Guild
The "Guild" provides various free legal services especially for political prison
ers. If you have any legal hassles, call and see if they'll help you. You can ca
ll the one nearest you and get the name of a good lawyer in your area.
¥ BOSTON - 70 Charles St.
¥ DETROIT - 5705 N. Woodward St.
¥ LOS ANGELES - c/o Haymarket, 507 N. Hoover St.
¥ NEW YORK - 1 Hudson St.
¥ SAN FRANCISCO - 197 Steiner St.
Outside of these areas, there are no offices, but people to contact in the follo
wing cities are:
¥ FLINT, MICH., Carl Bekofske, 1003 Church St.
¥ PHILADELPHIA, PA. - A. Harry Levitan, 1412 Fox Building
¥ WASHINGTON, D.C. - S. David Levy, 2812 Pennsylvania Ave.,
N.W.American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU is not as radical as the Guild, but will in rare instances provide good
lawyers for a variety of civil liberty cases such as censorship, denial of perm
its to demonstrations, and the like. But beware of their tendency to win the leg
al point while losing the case. Here is a list of some of their larger offices.
¥ ALABAMA - Box 1972, University, Alabama 35486
¥ CALIFORNIA - ACLU of Northern California, 503 Market St., ¥ SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 9
4105 (EX 2-4692)
¥ COLORADO - 1452 Pennsylvania St., Denver, Colorado 80203 (303-TA5-2930)
¥ GEORGIA - 5 Forsyth St. N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303 (404-523-5398)
¥ ILLINOIS - 6 S. Clark, Chicago, Illinois 60603 (312-236-5564)
¥ MICHIGAN - 234 State St., Detroit, Mich. 48226 (313-961-4662)
¥ MONTANA - 2707 Glenwood Land, Billings, Montana 59102 (406-651-2328) ¥ NEW MEXICO
- 131 La Vega S.W., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87105 (505-877-5286)
¥ NEW YORK - 156 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010 (212-WA9-6076)
¥ NORTH DAKOTA - Ward County (Minot), Box 1000, Minot, North Dakota 58701 (702-838
-0381)
¥ OHIO - Suite 200, 203 E. Broad St., Columbus, Ohio 43215
¥ WASHINGTON, DC - (NCACLU) 1424 16th St. NW, Suite 501,
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JOIN THE ARMY OF YOUR CHOICE
The first rule of our new Nation prohibits any of us from serving in the army of
a foreign power with which we do not have an alliance. Since we exist in a stat
e of war with the Pig Empire, we all have a responsibility to beat the draft by
any means necessary. First check out your medical history. Review every chronic
or long-term illness you ever had. Be sure to put down all the serious infection
s like mono or hep. Next, make note of your physical complications. When you hav
e assembled a complete list, get a copy of Physical Deferments or one of the oth
er draft counseling manuals and see if you qualify. If you have a legitimate def
erment, document it with a letter from a doctor. The next best deal is a Conscie
ntious Objection status (C.O.) or a psychiatric deferment (psycho). The laws hav
e been getting progressively broader in defining C.O. status during the past few
year s. The most recent being, "sincere moral objections to war," without neces
sarily a belief in a supreme being. There are general guidelines sent out by the
National Office of Selective Service that say it is a matter of conscience. The
decision, however, is still pretty much in the hands of the local board. Visit
a Draft Counseling Center if you feel you have a chance for this type of story.
They'll know how your local board tends to rule. There are still some more cases
to be heard by the Supreme Court before objection to a particular war is allowe
d or disallowed. It is not grounds for deferment as of now. Psychos are our spec
ialty. Chromosome damage has totally wiped out our minds when it comes to concen
trating on killing innocent people in Asia. When you get your invite to join the
army, there are lots of ways you can prepare yourself mentally. Begin by stagge
ring up to a cop and telling him you don't know who you are or where you live. H
e'll arrange for you to be chauffeured to the nearest mental hospital. There you
repeat your performance, dropping the clue that you have used LSD in the past,
but you aren't sure if you're on it now or not. In due time, they'll put you up
for the night. When morning comes, you bounce out of bed, remember who you are,
swear you'll never drop acid again and thank everyone who took care of you. With
in a few hours, you'll be discharged. Don't be uptight about thinking how they'l
l lock you up forever cause you really are nuts. The hospitals measure victories
by how quickly they can throw you out the door. They are all overcrowded anyway
. In most areas, a one-night stand in a mental hospital is enough to convince th
e shrink at the induction center that you're capable of eating the flesh of a co
lonel. Just before you go, see a sympathetic psychiatrist and explain your sad m
ental shape. He'll get verification that you did time in a hospital and include
it in his letter, that you'll take along to the induction center. When you get t
o the physical examination, a high point in any young man's life, there are lots
of things working in your favor. Here, long hair helps; the army doesn't want t
o bother with trouble-makers. Remember this even though a tough looking sergeant
runs down bullshit about "how they're gonna fix your ass" and "anybody with a t
rigger finger gets passed." He's just auditioning for the Audie Murphy movies, s
o don't believe anything he lays down. Talk to the other guys about how rotten t
he war in Vietnam is and how if you get forced to go, you'll end up shooting som
e officers. Tell them you'd like the training so you can come back and take up w
ith the Weathermen.Check off as many items as can't be verified when given the f
orms. Suicide, dizzy spells, bed-wetting, dope addiction, homosexuality, hepatit
is. Be able to drop a few symptoms on the psychiatrist to back up your story of
rejection by a cold and brutal society that was indifferent, from a domineering
father that beat you, and mother that didn't understand anything. Be able to tra
ce your history of bad family relationships, your taking to the streets at 15 an
d eventually your getting "hooked." Let him "pry" things out of you if possible
. Show him your letter if you had the foresight to get one. Practice a good stor
y before you go for the physical with someone who has already beat the system. I
f your local board is fucked up, you can transfer to an area that disqualifies a
lmost everyone who wants out, such as the New York City boards. If you can't thi
nk of anything you can always get FUCK ARMY tattooed on the outside of the baby
finger of your right hand and give the tough sergeant a snappy salute and a hear
ty "yes sir!"**If unfortunately you get hauled in. The Army gives you a life ins
urance policy. By making Dan Berrigan or Angela Davis the beneficiary you might
avoid front-line duty.
CANADA, SWEDEN & POLITICAL ASYLUM
If you've totally fucked up your chances of getting a deferment or already are i
n the service and considering ditching, there are some things that you should kn
ow about asylum. There are three categories of countries that you should be inte
rested in if you are planning to ship out to avoid the draft or a serious prison
term. The safest countries are those with which Amerika has mutual offense trea
ties such as Cuba, North Korea and those behind the so-called Iron Curtain. The
next safest are countries unfriendly to the U.S. but suffer the possibility of a
military coup which might radically affect your status. Cambodia is a recent ex
ample of a border-line country. Some cats hijacked a ship bound for Vietnam and
went to Cambodia where they were granted asylum. Shortly thereafter the military
with a good deal of help from the CIA, took over and now the cats are in jail.
Algeria is currently a popular sanctuary in this category. Sweden will provide p
olitical asylum for draft dodgers and deserters. It helps to have a passport, bu
t even that isn't necessary since they are required by their own laws to let you
in. There are now about 35,000 exiles from the Pig Empire living in Sweden. The
American Deserters Committee, Upplandsgaten 18, Stockholm, phone 08-344663, wil
l provide you with immediate help, contacts and procedural information once you
get there. If you enter as a tourist with a passport, you can just go to the loc
al police station, state you are seeking asylum and fill out a form. It's that s
ample. They stamp your passport and this allows you to hustle rent and food from
the Swedish Social Bureau. It takes six months for you to get working papers th
at will permit you to get employment, but you can live on welfare until then wit
h no hassle. The following places can be contacted, for additional help. They ar
e all in Stockholm:
¥ Reverend Tom Hayes 82-42-11 or 21-45-86
¥ Kristina Nystrom of the Social Bureau 08-230570
¥ Bengt Suderstrom 31-84-32 (legal)
¥ Hans-Goran Franck 10-25-02(legal)
Canada does not offer political asylum but they do not support the U.S. foreign
policy in Southeast Asia so they allow draft dodgers and deserters to the curren
t tune of 50,000 to live there unmolested. Do not tell the officials at the bord
er that you are a deserter or draft dodger, as they will turn you in. Pose as a
visitor. To work in Canada you have to qualify for landed immigration status und
er a point system. There will be a number of background questions asked and you
have to score 50 points or better to pass and qualify. You get one point for eac
h year of formal education, 10 points if you have a professional skill, 10 point
s for being between 18-35 years of age, more points for having a Canadian home a
nd job waiting for you, for knowing English or French and a whopping 15 points f
or having a stereotyped middle class appearance and life-style. Letters from a p
riest or rabbi will help here. Some entry points are easier than others. Kingsga
te, for example, just north of Montana is very good on weekdays after 10:00 P.M.
The best approach if you are considering going to Canada is to write or, better
still, visit the Montreal Council to Aid War Resisters, Case Postale 5, Westmoun
t, Montreal, 215 Quebec or American Deserters Committee, 3837 Blvd., Saint Laure
nt, St. Louis, Montreal 3, Quebec. They will provide you with the latest info on
procedures and the problems of living in Canada as a war resister. If you can't
make it up there, see a local anti-war organization for counseling. If you are
already in the army, you should find out all you need to know before you ditch.
It's best to cross the border while you're on leave as it might mean the differe
nce between going AWOL and desertion if you decide to come back. In any event, n
o one should renounce their citizenship until they have qualified for landed imm
igration status as that would classify the person as a non-resident and make it
possible for the Canadian police to send you back, which on a few rare occasions
has happened. Because there have been few cases of fugitives from the U.S. seek
ing political asylum, there is not a clear and ample formula that can be stated.
Germany, France, Belgium and Sweden will often offer asylum for obvious politic
al cases but each case must be considered individually. Go there incognito. Cont
act a movement organization or lawyer and have them make application to the gove
rnment. Usually they will let you stay if you promise not to engage in political
organizing in their country. In any event if they deport you these countries ar
e good enough to let you pick the country to which you desire to be sent. We fee
l it's our obligation to let people know that life in exile is not all a neat de
al, not by a long shot. You are removed from the struggle here at home, the prob
lems of finding work are immense and the customs of the people are strange to yo
u. Most people are unhappy in exile. Many return, some turn themselves in and ot
hers come back to join the growing radical underground making war in the belly o
f the great white whale. Steal Now, Pay Never
SHOPLIFTING
This section presents some general guidelines on thievery to put you ahead of th
e impulse swiping. With some planning ahead, practice and a little nerve, you ca
n pick up on some terrific bargains. Being a successful shoplifter requires the
development of an outlaw mentality. When you enter a store you should already ha
ve cased the joint so don't browse around examining all sorts of items, staring
over your shoulder and generally appearing like you're about to snatch something
and are afraid of getting caught. Enter, having a good idea of what you want an
d where it's located. Camouflage is important. Be sure you dress the part by loo
king like an average customer. If you are going to rip-off expensive stores (why
settle for less), act like you have a chauffeur driven car double parked around
the corner. A good rule is dress in the style and price range of the clothes, e
tc., you are about to shoplift. The reason we recommend the more expensive store
s is that they tend to have less security guards, relying instead on mechanical
methods or more usually on just the sales people. Many salespeople are uptight a
bout carrying out a bust if they catch you. A large number are thieves themselve
s, in fact one good way to steal is simply explain to the salesclerk that you're
broke and ask if you can take something without paying. It's a great way to rad
icalize shop personnel by rapping to them about why they shouldn't give a shit i
f the boss gets ripped off. The best time to work out is on a rainy, cold day du
ring a busy shopping season. Christmas holiday is a shoplifter's paradise. In th
ese periods you can wear heavy overcoats or loose raincoats without attracting s
uspicion. The crowds of shoppers will keep the nosy "can-I-help-you's" from fuck
ing up your style. Since you have already checked out the store before hitting i
t, you'll know the store's "blind-spots" where you can be busy without being obs
erved too easily. Dressing rooms, blind alley aisles and washrooms are some good
spots. Know where the cashier's counter is located, where the exits to the stre
et and storage rooms are to be found, and most important, the type of security s
ystem in use. If you are going to snatch in the dressing room, be sure to carry
more than one item in with you. Don't leave tell-tale empty hangers behind. Take
them out and ditch them in the aisles. An increasingly popular method of securi
ty is a small shoplifting plastic detector attached to the price tag. It says "D
o Not Remove" and if you do, it electronically triggers an alarm in the store. I
f you try to make it out the door, it also trips the alarm system. When a custom
er buys the item, the cashier removes the detector with a special deactivation m
achine. When you enter the store, notice if the door is rigged with electronic e
yes. They are often at the waist level, which means if the item is strapped to y
our calf or tucked under your hat, you can walk out without a peep from the alar
m. If you trigger the alarm either inside the store or at the threshold, just da
sh off lickety-split. The electronic eyes are often disguised as part of the dec
or. By checking to see what the cashier does with merchandise bought, you can be
sure if the store is rigged. Other methods are undercover pigs that look like s
hoppers, one-way mirrors and remote control television cameras. Undercover pigs
are expensive so stores are usually understaffed. Just watch out (without appear
ing to watch out) that no one observes you in action. As to mirrors and cameras
there are always blind spots in a store created when displays are moved around,
counters shifted, and boxes piled in the aisles. Mirrors and cameras are rarely
adjusted to fit these changes. Don't get turned off by this security jazz. The
percentage of stores that have sophisticated security systems such as those desc
ribed is very small. If you work out at lunch time, the security guards and many
of the sales personnel will be out of the store. Just before closing is also go
od, because the clerks are concentrating on going home. By taking only one or tw
o items, you can prevent a bust if caught by just acting like a dizzy klepto soc
ialite getting kicks or use the "Oh-gee-I-forgot-to-pay" routine. Stores don't w
ant to hassle going into court to press charges, so they usually let you go afte
r you return the stuff. If you thought ahead, you'll have some cash ready to pay
for the items you've pocketed, if caught. Leave your I.D. and phone book at hom
e before going shopping. People rarely go to jail for shoplifting, most if caugh
t never even see a real cop. Just lie like a fucker and the most you'll get is a
lecture on law and order and a warning not to come back to that store or else.
TECHNIQUES
The lining of a bulky overcoat or loose raincoat can be elaborately outfitted wi
th a variety of custom-made large pockets. The openings to these pockets are not
visible since they are inside the coat. The outside pockets can be torn out lea
ving only the opening or slit. Thus you can reach your hand (at counter level) t
hrough the slit in your coat and drop objects into the secret pockets sewn into
the lining. Pants can also be rigged with secret pockets. The idea is to let you
r fingers do the walking through the slit in your coat, while the rest of the bo
dy remains the casual browser. You'll be amazed at how much you can tuck away wi
thout any noticeable bulge. Another method is to use a hidden belt attached to t
he inside of your coat or pants. The belt is specially designed with hooks or cl
othespins to which items can be discretely attached. Ditching items into hidden
pockets requires a little cunning. You should practice before a mirror until you
get good at it. A good idea is to work with a partner. Dig this neat duet. A ma
n and woman walk into a store together looking like a respectable husband and wi
fe. The man purchases a good belt or shirt and engages the salesman in some dist
racting conversation as he rings up the sale. Meanwhile, back in the aisle, "wif
e" is busy rolling up two or three suits. Start from the bottom while they are s
till on the rack and roll them up, pants and jackets together, the way you would
roll a sleeping bag. The sleeves are tied around the roll making a neat little
bundle. The bundle is then tucked between your thighs. The whole operation takes
about a minute and with some practice you can walk for hours with a good size b
undle between your legs and not appear like you just shit in your pants. Try thi
s with a coat on in front of a mirror and see how good you get at it. Another te
am method is for one or more partners to distract the sales clerks while the oth
er stuffs. There are all sorts of theater skits possible. One person can act dru
nk or better still appear to be having an epileptic fit. Two people can start a
fight with each other. There are loads of ways, just remember how they do it in
the next spy movie you see. One of the best gimmicks around is the packaging tec
hnique. Once you have the target item in hand, head for the fitting room or othe
r secluded spot. Take out a large piece of gift wrapping and ribbon. Quickly wra
p up the item so it will look like you brought it in with you. Many stores have
their own bags and staple the cash register receipt to the top of the bag when y
ou make a purchase. Get a number of these bags by saving them if you make a purc
hase or dropping around to the receiving department with a request for some bags
for your Christmas play or something. Next collect some sales receipts, usually
from the sidewalk or trash cans in front of the store. Buy or rip-off a small p
ocket stapler for less than a dollar. When you get the item you want, drop it in
the bag and staple it closed, remembering to attach the receipt. This is an abs
olutely perfect method and takes just a few seconds. It eliminates a lot of unsi
ghtly bulges in your coat and is good for warm-weather heisting. A dummy shoppin
g bag can be rigged with a bit of ingenuity. The idea is to make it look like th
e bag is full when there's still lots of room left. Use strips of cardboard tape
d to the inside of the bag to give it some body. Remember to carry it like it's
filled with items, not air. Professional heisters often use a "booster box," usu
ally a neatly wrapped empty package with one end that opens upon touch. This is
ideal for electrical appliances, jewelry, and even heavy items such as portable
television sets. The trick side can be fitted with a spring door so once the toa
ster is inside the door slams shut. Don't wear a black hat and cape and go aroun
d waving a wand yelling "Abracadabra," just be your usual shlep shopper self. If
you can manage it, the trick side just can be an opening without a trick door.
Just carry the booster box with the open side pressed against your body. Briefca
ses, suitcases and other types of carrying devices can all be made to hold items
. Once you have something neatly tucked away in a bag or box, it's pretty hard t
o prove you didn't come in with it.
ON THE JOB
By far the easiest and most productive method of stealing is on the job. Wages p
aid to delivery boys, sales clerks, shippers, cashiers and the like are so insul
ting that stealing really is a way of maintaining self-respect. If you are set o
n stealing the store dry when you apply for the job, begin with your best foot f
orward. Make what employment agencies call a "good appearance." Exude cleanlines
s, Godliness, sobriety and all the other WASPy virtues third grade teachers insi
st upon. Building up a good front will eliminate suspicion when things are "miss
ing."Mail clerks and delivery boys can work all sorts of neat tricks. When thing
s get a little slow, type up some labels addressed to yourself or to close frien
ds and play Santa Claus. Wrap yourself a few packages or take one that is suppos
ed to go to a customer and put your label over theirs. Blame it on the post offi
ce or on the fact that "things get messed up `cause of all the bureaucracy." It'
s great to be the one to verbalize the boss's own general feelings before he doe
s when something goes awry. The best on-the-job crooks always end up getting pro
moted. Cashiers and sales persons who have access to money can pick up a little
pocket change without too much effort, no matter how closely they are watched by
supervisors. Women can make use of torn hems to stash coins and bills. Men can
utilize cuffs. Both can use shoes and don't forget those secret little pockets y
ou learned about in the last section. If you ring up items on a cash register, y
ou can easily mistake $1.39 for 39¢ or $1.98 for 98¢ during the course of a hectic d
ay. Leave pennies on the top shelf of the cash register and move one to the far
right side every time you skip a dollar. That way at the end of the day, you'll
know how much to pocket and won't have to constantly be stuffing, stuffing, stuf
fing. If you pick up trash or clean up, you can stick all sorts of items into wa
stebaskets and later sneak them out of the store. There are many ways of working
heists with partners who pose as customers. See the sections on free food and c
lothing for these. There are also ways of working partnerships on the job. A cas
hier at a movie theater and a doorman can work out a system where the doorman co
llects the tickets and returns them to the cashier to sell again. A neat way to
make a large haul is to get a job through an agency as a domestic for some rich
slob. You should use a phony identification when you sign up at the agency. Once
you are busy dusting the town house, check around for anything valuable to be t
aken home. Pick up the phone, order all sorts of merchandise, and have it delive
red. A friend with a U-haul can help you really clean up.
CREDIT CARDS
Any discussion of shoplifting and forgeries inevitably leads to a rap on credit
cards; those little shiny plastic wonder passes to fantasy land that are renderi
ng cash obsolete. There are many ways to land a free credit card. You can get on
e yourself if your credit is good, or from a friend: report it stolen and go on
a binge around town. Sign your name a little funny. Super underworld types might
know where you can purchase a card that's not too hot on the black market. You
might heist one at a fashionable party or restaurant. If you're a hat check girl
at a night club, don't forget to check out pockets and handbags for plastic goo
dies.*Finally, you can redo a legitimate card with a new number and signature an
d be sure that it's on no one's "hot list." Begin by removing the ink on the rai
sed letters with any polyester resin cleaner. Next, the plastic card should be h
eld against a flat iron until the raised identification number is melted. You ca
n use a razor blade to shave off rough spots. This combination of razor blade an
d hot iron, when worked skillfully, will produce a perfect blank card. When the
card is smooth as new, reheat it using the flat iron and press an addressograph
plate into the soft plastic. The ink can be replaced by matching the original at
any stationary store. If this is too hard, you can buy machines to make your ow
n credit cards, which are made for small department stores. Granted, this method
 is going require some expertise, but once you've learned to successfully forge
a credit card, buy every item imaginable, eat fancy meals, and even get real mon
ey from a bank.*The absolute best method is to have an accomplice working in the
post office rip off the new cards that are mailed out. They get to know quickly
which envelopes contain new credit cards. Since the person never receives the c
ard it never dawns on them to report it stolen. This gives you at least a solid
month of carefree spending and your signature will be perfect. Whether your cred
it card is stolen, borrowed or forged, you still have to follow some guidelines
to get away without any hassle. Know the store's checking method before you pass
the hot card. Most stores have a fifty-dollar limit where they only call upstai
rs on items costing fifty dollars or more. In some stores it's less. Some places
have a Regiscope system that takes your picture with each purchase. You should
always carry at least one piece of back-up identification to use with the phony
card as the clerk might get suspicious if you don't have any other ID. They can
check out a "hot list" that the credit card companies send out monthly, so if yo
u're uptight about anything watch the clerk's movements at all times. If things
get tight, just split real quick. Often, even if a clerk or boss thinks it's a p
hony, they'll OK the sale anyway since the credit card companies make good to th
e stores on all purchases; legit or otherwise. Similarly, the insurance companie
s make good to the credit companies and so on until you get to a little group of
hard working elves in the basement of the U.S. Mint who do nothing but print fr
ee money and lie to everybody about there being tons of gold at Fort Knox to bac
k up their own little forging operation.
Monkey Warfare
If you like Halloween, you'll love monkey warfare. It's ideal for people uptight
about guns, bombs and other children's toys, and allows for imaginative forms o
f protesting, many of which will become myth, hence duplicated and enlarged upon
. A syringe (minus the needle) or a cooking baster can be filled with a dilute s
olution of epoxy glue. Get the two tubes in a hardware store and squeeze into a
small bottle of rubbing alcohol. Shake real good and pour into the baster or syr
inge. You have about thirty minutes before the mixture gets too hard to use. Go
after locks, parking meters, and telephones. You can fuck up the companies that
use IBM cards by buying a cheap punch or using an Exacto knife and cutting an ex
tra hole in the card before you return it with your payment. By the way, when yo
u return payments always pay a few cents under or over. The company has to send
you a credit or another bill and it screws up their bookkeeping system. Remember
, always bend, fold, staple or otherwise mutilate the card. By the way if you ev
er find yourself in a computer room during a strike, you might want to fuck up t
he school records. You can do this by passing a large magnet or portable electro
-magnet rapidly back and forth across the reels of tape, thus erasing them. And
don't miss the tour of the IBM plant, either. Another good bit is to rent a safe
deposit box (only about $7.00 a year) in a bank using a phony name. That usuall
y only need a signature and don't ask for identification. When you get a box, de
posit a good size dead fish inside the deposit box, close it up and return it to
its proper niche. From then on, forget about it. Now think about it, in a few m
onths there is going to be a hell-of-a-smell from your small investment. It's go
ing to be almost impossible to trace and besides, they can never open the box wi
thout your permission. Since you don't exist, they'll have no alternative but to
move away. Invest in the Stank of Amerika savings program. Just check out Lake
Erie and you'll see saving fish isn't such a dumb idea. If you get caught, tell
them you inherited the fish from your grandmother and it has sentimental value.
There are lots of things you can send banks, draft boards and corporations that
contribute to pollution via the mails. It is possible to also have things delive
red. Have a hearse and flowers sent to the chief of police. We know someone who
had a truckload of cement dumped in the driveway of her boss under the fib that
the driveway was going to be repaved. By getting masses of people to use electri
city, phones or water at a given time, you can fuck up some not-so-public utilit
y. The whole problem is getting the word out. For example, 10,000 people turning
on all their electrical appliances and lights in their homes at a given time ca
n cause a blackout in any major city. A hot summer day at about 3:00 PM is best.
 Five thousand people calling up Washington, D.C. at 3:00 PM on a Friday (one of
the busiest hours) ties up the major trunk lines and really puts a cramp in the
government's style of carrying on. Call (202) 555-1212, which is information an
d you won't even have to pay for the call. If you call a government official, as
k some questions like "How many kids did you kill today?" or "What kind of liquo
r do Congressmen drink?" or offer to take Teddy Kennedy for a ride. A woman can
cause some real excitement by calling a Congressman's office and screaming "Tell
that bastard he forgot to meet Irene at the motel this afternoon."A Washington
call-in would work even better by phoning direct to homes of the big boys. For s
tarters you can call collect the following*:
¥ Richard M. Nixon - El Presidente - (202) 456-1444 ¥ Spiro T. Agnew - El Toro - (20
2) 265-2000 ext. 6400
¥ John N. Mitchell - El Butcher - (202) 965-2900
¥ Melvin R. Laird - El Defendo - (301) 652-4449
¥ Henry A. Kissinger - El Exigente - (202) 337-0042
¥ William P. Rogers - El Crapper - (301) 654-7125
¥ General Earl G. Wheeler - El Joint Bosso - (703) 527-6119
¥ General William C. Westmoreland - El Pollutoni - (703) 527-6999
¥ Richard M. Helms - El Assassin - (301) 652-4122
¥ John N. Chafee-El Sinko Swimmi-(703) 536-5411
*Any group who elopes with any of the persons listed is entitled to a free copy
of this book. Anyone who parlays all 10 in a lift-off can have all the royalties
. Send ears for verification. A great national campaign can be promoted that ask
s people to protest the presidential election farces on Inauguration Day. When a
president says "So help me God," rush in and flush the toilet. A successful Flu
sh for God campaign can really screw up the water system. If you want to give Ma
Bell an electric permanent, consider this nasty. Cut the female device off an o
rdinary extension cord and expose the two wires. Unscrew the mouthpiece on the p
hone and remove the voice amplifier. You will see a red and a black wire attach
ed to two terminals. Attach each of the wires from the extension cord to each on
e from the phone. Next plug in the extension cord to a wall socket. What you are
doing is sending 120 volts of electricity back through equipment which is built
for only volts. You can knock off thousands of phones, switchboards and devices
if all goes right. It's best to do this on the phone in a large office building
or university. You certainly will knock out their fuses. Unfortunately, at home
your own phone will probably be knocked out of commission. If that happens, sim
ply call up the business office and complain. They'll give you a new phone just
the way they give the other seven million people that requested them that day. R
emember, January is Alien Registration Month, so don't forget to fill out an app
lication at the Post Office, listing yourself as a citizen of Free Nation. Then
when they ask you to "Love it or leave it," tell them you already left! Piece No
w
It's ridiculous to talk about a revolution without a few words on guns. If you h
aven't been in the army or done some hunting, you probably have a built-in fear
against guns that can only be overcome by familiarizing yourself with them.
HANDGUNS
There are two basic types of handguns or pistols: the revolver carries a load of
5 or 6 bullets in a "revolving" chamber. The automatic usually holds the same n
umber, but some can hold up to 14 bullets. Also, in the automatic the bullets ca
n be already packed in a magazine which quickly snaps into position in the handl
e. The revolver must be reloaded one bullet at a time. An automatic can jam on r
are occasions, or misfire, but with a revolver you just pull the trigger and the
re's a new bullet ready to fire. Despite pictures of Roy Rogers blasting a silve
r dollar out of the sky, handguns are difficult to master a high degree of accur
acy with and are only good at short ranges. If you can hit a pig-size object at
25 yards, you've been practicing. Among automatics, the Colt 45 is a popular mod
el with a long record of reliability. A good popular favorite is a Parabellum 9
mm, which has the advantage of a double action on the first shot, meaning that t
he hammer does not have to be cocked, making possible a quick first shot without
carrying a cocked gun around. By the way, do not bother with any handgun smalle
r than a .38 caliber, because cartridges smaller than that are too weak to be ef
fective. Revolvers come in all sizes and makes, as do automatics. The most high
ly recommended are the .38 Special and the .357 Magnum. Almost all police forces
use the .38 Special. They are light, accurate and the small-frame models are ea
sy to conceal. If you get one, use high velocity hollow pointed bullets, such as
the Speer DWM (146 grain h.p.) or the Super Vel (110 grain h.p.). The hollow po
int shatters on contact, insuring a kill to the not-so-straight shooters. Smith
and Wesson makes the most popular .38 Special. The Charter Arms is a favorite mo
del. The .357 Magnum is an extremely powerful handgun. You can shoot right throu
gh the wall of a thick door with one at a distance of 20 yards. It has its own a
mmo, but can also use the bullets designed for the .38. Both guns are about the
same in price, running from $75-$100 new. An automatic generally runs about $25
higher.
RIFLES
There are two commonly available types of rifles; the bolt action and the semi-a
utomatic. War surplus bolt action rifles are cheap and usually pretty accurate,
but have a slower rate of fire than a semi-automatic. A semi-automatic is prefer
able in nearly all cases. The M-1 carbine is probably the best semi-automatic fo
r the money (about $80). It's light, short, easy to handle and has only the draw
back of a cartridge that's a little underpowered. Among bolt actions, the Spring
field, Mauser, Royal Enfield, Russian 7.62, and the Lee Harvey Oswald Special, t
he Mannlicher-Carcano, are all good buys for the money (about $20). One of the b
est semi-automatics is the AR-18, which is the civilian version of the military
M-16. In general, this is a fantastic gun with a high rate of fire, minimal reco
il, high accuracy, light weight, and easy maintenance. If kept clean, it will ra
rely jam, and the bullet has astounding stopping power. It sells for around $225
.
SHOTGUNS
The shotgun is the ideal defensive weapon. It's perfect for the vamping band of
pigs or hard-heads that tries to lynch you. Being a good shot isn't that necessa
ry because a shotgun shoots a bunch of lead pellets that spread over a wide rang
e as they leave the barrel. There are two common types: the pump action and the
semi-automatic. Single shot types and double-barrel types do not have a high eno
ugh rate of fire for self-defense. The pump action is easy to use and reliable.
It usually holds about five shells in a tube underneath the barrel. For self-def
ense you should use 00 buckshot shells. Shotguns come in various gauges, but you
will want the largest commonly available, the 12 gauge. The Mossberg Model 500
A is a super weapon in this category which sells for about $90. When buying one,
try to get a shotgun with a barrel as short as possible up to the legal limit o
f 18 inches. It is easy to cut down a longer barrel, too. This increases the are
a sprayed. The semi-automatic gun is not used too much for self-defense, as they
usually hold only three shells. With some practice, you can shoot a pump nearly
as fast as a semi-automatic, and they are much cheaper. See the gun books catal
ogued in the Appendix for more information. There are many other good guns avail
able, and a great deal to know about choosing the right gun for the right situat
ion. Reading a little right wing gun literature will help.
OTHER WEAPONS
If you are around a military base, you will find it relatively easy to get your
hands on an M-79 grenade launcher, which is like a giant shotgun and is probably
the best self-defense weapon of all time. Just inquire discreetly among some lo
ng-haired soldiers.
TRAINING
Owning a gun ain't shit unless you know how to use it. They make a hell of a rac
ket when fired so you just can't work out in your den or cellar except with a BB
gun, which is good in between real practice sessions. Find a buddy who served i
n the military or is into hunting or target-shooting and ask him to teach you th
e fundamentals of gun handling and safety. If you're over 18, you can practice o
n one of your local firing ranges. Look them up in the Yellow Pages, call and se
e if they offer instructions. They are usually pretty cheap to use. In an hour,
you can learn the basics you need to know about guns and the rest is mostly prac
tice, practice, just like in the westerns. Contact the National Rifle Associatio
n, Washington D.C. and ask for information on forming a gun club. If you can, yo
u are entitled to great discounts, have no trouble using ranges and get excellen
t info on all matters relating to weapons. A secluded place in the country outsi
de city limits, makes an ideal range for practicing. Shoot at positioned targets
. A good idea is to blow up balloons and attach them to pieces or boxes. Positi
on yourself downstream alongside a running brook. A partner can go upstream and
release the balloons into the water. As they rush downstream, they simulate an a
ttacker charging you and make excellent moving targets. Watch out for ricochetti
ng bullets. Have any bystander stand by behind you. A clothesline with a pulley
attachment can be rigged up to also allow practice with a moving target.
GUN LAWS
Once you decide to get a gun, check out the local laws. There are federal ones,
but they're not stricter than any state ordinance. If you're unsure about the la
ws, send 75¢ to the U.S. Government Printing Office for the manual called Publishe
d Ordinances: Firearms. It runs down the latest on all state laws. In most state
s you can buy a rifle or shotgun just for the bread from a store or individual i
f you are over 18 years old. You can get a handgun when you can prove you're ove
r 21, although you generally need a special permit to carry it concealed on your
person or in your car. A concealed weapon permit is pretty hard to get unless
you're part of the establishment. You can keep a handgun in your home, though. I
t's also generally illegal to walk around with a loaded gun of any type. Once yo
u get the hang of using a gun, you'll never want to go back to the old peashoote
r. The Underground Amerika is just another Latin dictatorship. Those who have do
ubts, should try the minimal experience of organizing a large rock festival in t
heir state*, sleeping on some beach in the summer or wearing a flag shirt. Ask t
he blacks what it's been like living under racism and you'll get a taste of the
future we face. As the repression increases so will the underground-deadly group
s of stoned revolutionaries sneaking around at night and balling all day. As dea
dly as their southern comrades the Tupamaros. Political trials will only occur w
hen the heavy folks are caught. Too many sisters and brothers have been locked u
p for long stretches having maintained a false faith in the good will of the cou
rt system. Instead, increased numbers have chosen to become fugitives from injus
tice: Bernadine Dohrn, Rap Brown, Mark Rudd, hundreds of others. Some including
Angela Davis, Father Berrigan and Pun Plamondon have been apprehended and locked
in cages, but most roam freely and actively inside the intestines of the system
. Their growth leads to persistent indigestion for those who sit at the tables o
f power. As they form into active isolated cells they make apprehension difficul
t. Soon the FBI will have a Thousand Most Wanted List. Our heroes will be hunted
like beasts in the jungle. Anyone who provides information leading to the arres
t of a fugitive is a traitor.*Unless you want to use our music to attack our pol
itics as the governor of Oregon did to drain support away from demonstrations ag
ainst the AmeriKKKan Legion. In such a situation the concert should be sabotaged
along with political education as to why such an action has been taken. Don't l
et the pigs separate our culture from our politics. Well fellow reader, what wil
l you do when Rap or Bernadine call up and ask to crash for the night? What if t
he Armstrong Brothers want to drop some acid at your pad or Kathy Boudin needs s
ome bread to keep on truckin'? The entire youth culture, everyone who smiles sec
retly when President Agnew and General Mitchell refer to the growing number of "
hot-headed revolutionaries", all the folks who hope the Cong wins, who cheer the
Tupamaros on, who want to exchange secret handshakes with the Greek resistance
movement, who say "It's about time" when the pigs get gunned down in the black c
ommunity, all of us have an obligation to support the underground. They are the
vanguard of our revolution and in a sense this book is dedicated to their courag
e. If you see a fugitive's picture on the post office wall take it home for a so
uvenir. But watch out, because this is illegal. Soon the FBI will be printing al
l our posters for free. Right on, FBI! Print up wanted posters of the war crimin
als in Washington and undercover agents (be absolutely sure) and put them up ins
tead. Since the folks underground move freely among us, we must be totally cool
if by chance we recognize a fugitive through their disguise. If they deem it nec
essary to contact you, they will make the first move. If you are very active in
the aboveground movement, chances are you are being watched or tapped and it wou
ld be foolhardy to make contact. The underground would be meaningless without th
e building of a massive community with corresponding political goals. People abo
ve ground demonstrate their love for fugitives by continuing and intensifying th
eir own commitment. If the FBI or local subversive squad of the police departmen
t is asking a lot of questions about certain fugitives, get the word out. Call y
our underground paper or make the announcement at large movement gatherings or m
usic festivals; the grapevine will pass information on to those that need to kno
w. If you're forced to go underground, don't think you need to link up with the
more well-known groups such as the Weathermen. If you go under with some close f
riends, stick together if it's possible. Build contacts with aboveground people
that are not that well known to the authorities and can be totally trusted. You
should change the location in which you operate and move to a place where the he
at on yon won't be as heavy. A good disguise should be worked out. The more info
rmation the authorities have on you and the heavier the charges determine how co
mplete your disguise should be. There are some good tips in the books on make-up
listed in the Appendix. Only in rare cases is it necessary to abandon the outwa
rd appearance of belonging to the youth culture. In fact, even J. Edgar Freako a
dmits that our culture is our chief defense. To infiltrate the youth culture mea
ns becoming one of us. For an FBI agent to learn an ideological cover is a highl
y disciplined organization is relatively easy. To penetrate the culture means ch
anging the way they live. The typical agent would stand out like Jimmy Stewart i
n a tribe of Apaches.In the usual case the authorities do not look for a fugitiv
e in the sense of carrying on a massive manhunt. Generally, people are caught fo
r breaking some minor offense and during the routine arrest procedure, their fin
gerprints give them away. Thus for a fugitive having good identification papers
being careful about violations such as speeding or loitering, and not carrying w
eapons or bombing manuals become an important part of the security. It is also a
good idea to have at least a hundred dollars cash on you at all times. Often ev
en if you are arrested you can bail yourself out and split long before the finge
rprints or other identification checks are completed. If by some chance you are
placed on the "10 Most Wanted List" that is a signal that the FBI are indeed con
ducting a manhunt. It is also the hint that they have uncovered some clues and f
eel confident they can nab you soon. The List is a public relations gimmick that
Hooper, or whatever his name is, dreamed up to show the FBI as super sleuths, a
nd compliment the bullshit image of them that Hollywood lays down. Most FBI agen
ts are southerners who majored in accounting or some other creative field. When
you are placed on the List, go deeper underground. It may become necessary to cu
rtail your activities for a while. The manhunt lasts only as long as you are new
sworthy since the FBI is very media conscious. Change your disguise, identificat
ion and narrow your circle of contacts. In a few months, when the heat is off, y
ou'll be able to be more active, but for the time, sit tight.
IDENTIFICATION PAPERS
An amateur photographer or commercial artist with good processing equipment can
make passable phony identification papers. Using a real I.D. card, mask out the
name, address, and signature with thin strips of paper the same color as the car
d itself. Do a neat gluing job. Next, photograph the card using bright overhead
lighting to avoid shadows, or xerox it. Use a paper of a color and weight as clo
se to the real thing as you can get. If you use phony state and city papers such
as birth certificate or driver's license, choose a state that is far away from
the area in which you are located. Have a complete understanding of all the info
rmation you are forging. Dates, cities, birthdays and other data are often part
of a coding system. Most are easy to figure out simply by studying a few similar
authentic cards. Almost all I.D. cards use one or another IBM Selectric type to
fill in the individual's papers. You can buy the exact model used by federal an
d state agencies for less than $20.00 and install the ball in 5 seconds on any S
electric machine. When you finish the typing operation, sign your new name and t
rim the card to the size you want. Rub some dirt on the card and bend it a littl
e to eliminate its newness. Another method is to obtain a set of papers from a c
lose friend of similar characteristics. Your friend can replace the originals wi
thout too much trouble. In both cases it might be advisable to get authentic pap
ers using the phonies you have in your possession. In some states getting a lice
nse or voting registration card is very easy. Library cards and other supplement
ary I.D.'s are simple to get. A passport should not be attempted until you defin
itely have made up your mind to split the country. That way agencies have less t
ime to check the information and you can decide on the disguise to be used for t
he picture. Unless you expect to get hotter than you are right now, in which cas
e, get it now. It is wise to have two sets of identification to be on the safe s
ide but never have both in your possession at the same time. If you sense the au
thorities are close to mailing you and choose to go underground, prepare all the
identification papers well in advance and store them in a secure place. Inform
no one of your possible new identity. Before you start passing phony I.D.'s to c
ops, banks and passport offices, you should have experience with lesser targets
so you feel comfortable using them. There are stiff penalties for this if you ge
t caught. A few better methods than the ones listed above exist, but we feel the
y should not be made this public. With a little imagination you'll have no troub
le. Dig!
COMMUNICATION
Living underground, like exile, can be extremely lonely, especially during the i
nitial adjustment period when you have to reshuffle your living habits. Psycholo
gically it becomes necessary to maintain a few close contacts with other fugitiv
es or folks aboveground. This is also necessary if you plan to continue waging r
evolutionary struggle. This means communication. If you contact persons or arran
ge for them to contact you, be super cool. Don't rush into meetings. Stay OFF th
e phone! If you must, use pay phones. Have the contact person go to a prescribed
booth at prescribed time. Knowing the phone number beforehand, you can call fro
m another pay phone. The pay phone system is superior to debugging devices and v
oice scramblers. Even so, some pay phones, that local police suspect bookies use
, are monitored. Keep your calls short and disguise your voice a bit. If you are
a contact and the call does not come as scheduled, don't panic. Perhaps the boo
th at the other end is occupied or the phone you are on is out of order. In New
York, the latter is usually true. Wait a reasonable length of time and then go a
bout your business. Another contact will be made. Personal rendezvous should tak
e place at places that are not movement hangouts or heavy pig scenes. Intermedia
ries should be used to see if anyone was followed. Just groove on a few good spy
flicks and you'll figure it all out. Communicating to masses of people above gr
ound is very important. It drives the MAN berserk and gives hope to comrades in
the struggle. The most important message is that you are alive, in good spirits
and carrying on the struggle. The communications of the Weathermen are brilliant
ly conceived. Develop a mailing list that you keep well hidden in case of a bust
. You can devise a system of mailing stuff in envelopes (careful of fingerprints
) inside larger envelopes to a trusted contact who will mail the items from anot
her location to further camouflage your area of operation. A host of communicati
on devices are available besides handwritten notes and typed communications. Tap
e recorders are excellent but better still are video-tape cassette machines. You
can wear masks, do all kinds of weird theatrical stuff and send the tapes to te
levision stations. At times you might want to risk being interviewed by a newsma
n, but this can be very dangerous unless you conceive a super plan and have some
degree of trust in the word of the journalist. Don't forget a grand jury could
be waiting for him with a six months contempt or perjury charge when he admits c
ontact and does not answer their questions. The only other advice is to dress wa
rm in the winter and cool in the summer, stay high and.
LIBERATION!
fuck new york
HOUSING
You can always sleep up in Central Park during the daytime, although the muggers
come out to play at night. Free night crashing can be found in the waiting room
of the Pennsylvania Railroad station, 34th St. and 7th Ave. The cops will leave
you alone until about 7:00 AM when they kick you out. You can put your rucksack
 in a locker for twenty-five cents to avoid it being ripped-off. The Boys Emerge
ncy Shelter, 69 St. Marks Place, (777-1234) provides free room and board for mal
es 16-20 years of age. The Living Room can be found on the same block. It's a he
avy religious scene, but they will help with room and board. Their hours are 6:3
0 PM to 2:00 AM, phone 982-5988. Also on the Lower East Side is the Macauley Mis
sion at 90 Lafayette St.On the West Side, there's a poet named Delworth at 125 S
ullivan St. that houses kids if he's got room. The Judson Memorial Church, Washi
ngton Square South always has one or more housing programs going. If you're real
ly hard up, try the Stranded Youth Program, 111 W. 31st St. (554-8897). Teenager
s 16-20 are sent home; if you don't want to go back but need room and board, giv
e them phony identification. The Graymoor Monastery (CA 6-2388) offers free room
and board for young people in the country. They provide transportation. FOODHun
t's Point Market, Hunt's Point Ave. and 138th St. in the Bronx will lay enough f
ruit and vegetables on your family to last a week or more. Lettuce, squash, carr
ots, cantaloupe, grapefruit, even artichokes and mushrooms all crated. You'll ne
ed a car or truck and they only give stuff away in the early morning. Just tell
them you're doing a free food thing and it's yours. Outasight! The large slaught
erhouse area is in the far West Village, west of Hudson and south of 14th St. Ge
t a letter from a clergyman saying you need meat for a church-sponsored meal.The
fish market is located on Fulton and South Streets under the East River Drive o
verpass in lower Manhattan. You can always manage to find some sympathetic fishe
rman early in the morning who will lay as much fish on you as you can cart away.
If you pick up on a car, take a trip to Long Island City. There you will find t
he Gordon Baking Company at 42-25 21st, Pepsi Cola at 4602 Fifth Ave., Borden Co
mpany at 35-10 Steinway St. and Dannon Yogurt at 22-11 38th Ave. All four places
give out samples for free if you call or write ahead and explain how it's for a
block party. Along 2nd and 3rd Avenues on the upper east side are a host of swa
nk bars with free hors-d'oeuvres beginning at five. All Longchamps are good, as
is Max's Kansas City.For real class, check the back pages of the New York Times
for ocean cruises and those swinging bon voyage parties. If you look kind of str
aight or want to disguise yourself and see the other half at it, sneak into conv
entions for drinks, snacks and all kinds of free samples. Call the New York Conv
ention Bureau, 90 E. 42nd St. MU 7-1300 for info. You can also get free tickets
to theater events here at 9:00 AM on weekdays. Other free meals can be gotten at
the various missions.
¥ Bowery Mission - 227 Bowery (674-3456). Pray and eat from 4:00 to 6:00 PM only.
Heavy religious orientation.
¥ Catholic Worker - 36 E. First St. Soup line from 10:00 to 11:00 AM. Clothes for
women on Thursday from 12:00 to 2:00 PM. Clothes for men after 2:00 PM weekdays.
Sometimes lodging.
¥ Holy Name Center for Homeless Men - 18 Bleeker St. (CA 6-5848 or CA 6-2338) Clot
hes and morning showers from 7:00 to 11:00 AM.
¥ Macauley Mission - 90 Lafayette St. (CA 6-6214) Free room and board. Free food S
aturdays at 5:00 PM. Sometimes free clothes.
¥ Moravian Church - 154 Lexington Ave. (MU 3-4219 or 533-3737) Free spaghetti dinn
er on Tuesday at 1:00 PM.
¥ Quakers - 328 E. 15th St. Meals at 6:00 PM Tuesdays.
¥ Wayward - 287 Mercer St. Free meals nightly.The International Society For Krishn
a Consciousness is located at 41 Second Ave. Every morning at 7:00 AM a deliciou
s cereal breakfast is served free along with chanting and dancing. Also at noon,
more food and chanting and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:00 PM, again fo
od and chanting. Then it's all day Sunday in Central Park Sheepmeadow (generally
) for still more chanting (sans food). Hari Krishna is the freest high going if
you can get into it and dig cereal and of course, more chanting. The Paradox Res
taurant, at 64 E. 7th St. is a neat cheap health joint that will give you a free
meal if you help peel shrimp or do the dishes.
MEDICAL CARE
The latest dope on family planning and the new abortion law can be obtained from
Planned Parenthood, 300 Park Ave. (777-2015). They provide a free directory on
city-wide services in this area. The Black Panther Free Health Clinic on 180 Sut
ter Ave. in Brooklyn is radical medicine in action. If you ripped off this book,
why not send them or another group mentioned in this book a check so they can c
ontinue serving the people. Two fantastic clinics on the Lower East Side are the
St. Marks People's Clinic at 44 St. Marks Place (533-9500), open weekdays 6-10
PM and NENA at 290 E. Third St. (677-5040) which also functions as a switchboard
for the area.The Beth Israel Teenage Clinic at 17th St. and 1st Ave. 673-3000 e
xt. 2424) services young people. Millie at the Village Project, 88 2nd Ave. can
arrange for free glasses. The New York University Dental Clinic, 421 First Ave.
will give you the cheapest dental care in Gotham. Stuyvesant-Poly Clinic, 137 Se
cond Ave. (674-0232) has an emergency day clinic with the quickest service. Dial
-a-freakout is 324-0707. Ambulance service is at 440-1234. You ought to know the
cops accompany ambulance calls. The following is a list of the New York City He
alth Department Centers. They provide a number of free services including X-rays
, venereal examinations and treatment, shots for children's diseases, vaccinatio
ns, tetanus shots and a host of other services.
Manhattan
¥ Central Harlem-2238 Fifth Ave. AU 3-1900
¥ East Harlem-158 E. 115th St. TR 6-0300
¥ Lower East Side-341 E. 25th St. MU 9-6353 ¥ Manhattanville-21 Old Broadway MO 5-59
00
¥ Morningside-264 W. 118th St. UN6-2500
¥ Washington Heights-600 W. 168th St. WA 7-6300Bronx
¥ Morrisania- 1309 Fulton St. WY 2-4200
¥ Mott Haven-349 E. 140th St. MO 9-6010
¥ Tremont-Fordham-1826 Arthur Ave. LU 3-5500
¥ Westchester-Pelham-2527 Glebe Ave. SY 2-0100Brooklyn
¥ Bedford-485 Throop Ave. GL 2-7880
¥ Brownsville-259 Briston St. HY 8-6742
¥ Bushwick-335 Central Ave. HI 3-5000
¥ Crown Heights-1218 Prospect Place SL 6-8902
¥ Flatbush-Gravesend-1601 Ave. S NI 5-8280
¥ Ft. Greene-295 Flatbush Ave. Ext. 643-8934
¥ Red Hook-Gowanus-250 Baltic St. 643-5687
¥ Sunset Park-514 49th St. GE 6-2800
¥ Williamsburg-Greenpoint-151 Mayier St. EV 8-3714Queens
¥ Astoria-Maspeth-12-1631st Ave. L.I.C. AS 8-5520
¥ Corona-Flushing-34-33 Junction Blvd., Jackson Heights HI 6-3570
¥ Jamaica-90-37 Parsons Blvd. OL 8-6600
¥ Rockaway-67-10 Rockaway Beach Blvd.; Arvenne NE 4-7700
¥ Richmond-51 Stuyvesant Place SA 7-6000
The key to getting overall medical care for free is to pick up on a Medicaid car
d. You can apply at any metropolitan hospital. After filling out a long form and
waiting three weeks you'll get your card in the mail. Have a good story when in
terviewed about why you're not working or only making under $2900 a year. There
is an age limit in that only folks over 21 can qualify, but the rule is liberall
y enforced and younger people can get the card with the right hardship story.
LEGAL AID
The Lawyer's Commune is a group of revolutionary young lawyers pledged to make a
limited income and handle the toughest political cases. They handle all our cas
es. Find them at 640 Broadway on the fifth floor (677-1552). New York radicals a
re fortunate in having a number of good legal assistance agencies. One of the fo
llowing is bound to be able to help you out of a jam.
¥ Emergency Civil Liberties Committee-25 E. 26th St. 683-8120 (civil liberties)
¥ Legal Aid Society-100 Centre St. BE 3-0250 (criminal matters)
¥ Mobilization for Youth Legal Services-320 E. Third St. 777-5250 (all types of se
rvices)
¥ National Lawyers Guild-5 Beekman St. 277-0385 or 227-1078 (political) ¥ New York C
ivil Liberties Union-156 Fifth Ave. 929-6076 (civil liberties)
¥ New York University Law Center Office-249 Sullivan St. GR 3-1896 (civil matters)
DRAFT COUNSELING
Bronx ¥ Claremont Neighborhood Center - 169th St. and Washington Ave. 588-1000. Ho
urs are from 2:00 to 10:00 weekdays.Brooklyn ¥ Black Anti-Draft Union - 448 Nostra
nd Ave.
¥ Church of St. John the Evangelist - 195 Mayier St. 387-8721
¥ Society for Ethical Culture - 53 Prospect Park West SO 8-2972Manhattan
¥ American Friends Service Committee - 15 Rutherford Place 777-4600
¥ Chelsea Draft Information - 346 W. 20th St. WA 9-2391
¥ Community Free Draft Counseling Center - 470 Amsterdam Ave. 787-8500 ¥ Greenwich V
illage Peace Center - 137 W. Fourth St. 533-5120
¥ Harlem Unemployment Center - 2035 Fifth Ave. 831-6591
¥ LEMPA - 105 Avenue B 477-9749
¥ New York Civil Liberties Union - 156 Fifth Ave. 675-5990
¥ New York Workshop in Nonviolence - 339 Lafayette St. 227-0973
¥ Resistance - 339 Lafayette St. 674-9060
¥ Union Theological Seminary - 606 W. 122nd St. MO 3-9090
¥ War Resisters League - 339 Lafayette St. 228-0450
¥ Westside Draft Information - 602 Columbus Ave. (89th St.) 874-7330
¥ Woman's Strike for Peace - 799 Broadway 254-1925PLAYBotanical Gardens ¥ Conservato
ry Gardens - Central Park, 105th St. and Fifth Ave. Seasonal display. LE 4-4938
¥ Brooklyn Botanical Gardens - Flatbush and Washington Aves. Rose Oriental Garden,
Rose Garden, Native Wild Flower Garden, Rock Garden, Conservatory. Seasonal dis
play. MA 2-4433.
¥ New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx Park, 200th St., east of Webster Ave. Gardens
and Conservatories. Seasonal displays. Parking fee: $1.00 on Saturday, Sunday a
nd holidays. Open: Grounds - 10:00 AM to dark, Greenhouses - 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
. 933-9400.
¥ Queens Botanical Gardens, 43-50 Main St., between Dahilia and Elder Aves., Flush
ing. TU 6-3800.These gardens are really beautiful places to fuck around for a da
y. The best ones are the Bronx and Brooklyn. Bring a picnic, a few friends, some
grass, and plant the seeds. It's all free.
Zoos
¥ Central Park - 64th St. and Fifth Ave. Free. Open 11 AM to 5 PM.
¥ Children's Zoo - 64th St. and Fifth Ave. Open 10 AM to 5 PM. Admission is 10 cen
ts. No tickets are sold after 4:30 PM. Free story-telling sessions with motion p
ictures or color slides at 3:30 PM, Mondays through Friday.
¥ Bronx Park - Fordham Road and Southern Blvd. WE 3-1500. Open daily from 10 AM to
5 PM. November, December, January closes at 4:30 PM. Admission on Tuesdays, Wed
nesdays and Thursdays is 25 cents for adults and children over 5 years. Free on
other days and all legal holidays. Children's Zoo closes November 1st.
¥ Barrett Park Zoo - in Richmond, Broadway, Glenwood Place and Clove Road. Open da
ily 10 AM to 5 PM. GI 2-3100.Unlike the barbaric cages in Central Park, the 18-a
cre Flushing Meadow Zoo in Queens has been designed so that visitors can view th
e animals and buds in their natural surroundings, without bars. Take the Main St
reet Flushing Line Subway (train number 7) from Times Square to 111th St. in Que
ens. Bronx Zoo which is the largest in the United States and Flushing Meadow Zoo
are fantastic.
Beaches
¥ Brooklyn - Coney Island Beach and Boardwalk ES 2-1670
¥ Manhattan Beach - Oriental Blvd., from Ocean Ave. to Makenzie St. DE 26794
¥ Bronx - Pelham Bay Park - Orchard Beach and Boardwalk TI 5-1828
¥ Queens - Jacob Riis Park - Jamaica Bay, Beach 149 to Beach 169 GR 4-4600
¥ Rockaway Beach - First St. to 149th St. GR 4-3470
¥ Richmond - Great Kills Park - Hylan Blvd., Great Kills EL 1-1977
¥ South Beach and Boardwalk - Ft. Wadsworth to Miller Field, New Dorp YU 7-0709
¥ Wolfs Pond Park - Holten and Cornelia Avenues, Princes Bay YU 4-0360Go to the be
ach on weekdays as it usually is very crowded on the weekends. The best beach by
far is Rockaway. lt has pretty good waves.Swimming
Pools
MANHATTAN - OUTDOOR POOLS
¥ Carmine Street Pool - Clarkson St. and Seventh Ave. WA 4-4246
¥ Colonial Pool - Bradhurst Ave. and W. 145th St. WA 6-8109
¥ East 23rd Street Pool - Asser Levy Place MU 5-1026
¥ Hamilton Fish Pool - E. Houston and Sheriff Streets GR 7-3911
¥ Highbridge Pool - Amsterdam Ave. and W. 173rd St. WA 3-2360
¥ John Jay Pool - 77th St., east of York Ave. at Cherokee Place. RE 7-2458
¥ Lasker Memorial Pool - Central Park, 110th St. and Lenox Ave. 348-6297
¥ Thomas Jefferson Pool - 111th St. and First Ave. LE 4-0198
¥ West 59th Street Pool - between West End and Amsterdam Avenues. CI 5-8519
MANHATTAN - INDOOR POOLS
¥ Baruch Pool - Rivington St. and Baruch Place GR 3-6950
¥ East 54th Street Pool - 342 E. 54th St. and Second Ave. PL 8-3147
¥ Rutgers Place Pool - 5 Rutgers Place GR 3-6567
¥ West 28th Street Pool - 407 W. 28th St. CH 4-1896
¥ West 134th Street Pool - 35 W. 134th St. AU 3-4612BROOKLYN - OUTDOOR POOLS ¥ Betsy
Head Pool - Hopkinson and Dumont Avenues DI 2-2977
¥ McCarren Pool - Driggs Ave. and Lorimer St. EV 8-2367 ¥ Red Hook Pool - Bay and He
nry Streets TR 5-3855
¥ Sunset Pool - Seventh Ave. and 43rd St. GE 5-2627
BROOKLYN = INDOOR POOLS
¥ Brownsville Recreation Center - Linden Blvd. and Christopher Ave. HY 8-1121
¥ Metropolitan Avenue Pool - Bedford Ave., no phone; call SO 8-2300
¥ St. John's Recreation Center - Prospect Place and Schenectady Avenues HY 3-3948B
RONX OUTDOOR POOLS
¥ Crotona Pool - E. 173rd St. and Fulton Ave. LU 3-3910
BRONX - INDOOR POOLS
¥ St. Mary's Recreation Center Pool - St. Ann's Ave. and E. 145th St. CY 2-7254QUE
ENS - OUTDOOR POOLS
¥ Astoria Pool - 19th St. and 23rd Drive, Astoria AS 8-5261
¥ Flushing Meadow Amphitheatre - Long Island Expressway and Grand Central Parkway,
Swimming pool and diving pool. 699-4228.
RICHMOND - OUTDOOR POOLS
¥ Faber Pool - Faber St. and Richmond Terrace GI 2-1524
¥ Lyons Pool - Victory Blvd. and Murray Hulbert Ave. GI 7-6650
The pools are generally crowded but on a warm summer day you don't care. The poo
ls are open on weekdays from 10 AM to 12:30 PM. There is a free period for child
ren 14 years of age and under. No adults are admitted to the pool areas during t
his free period. After 1 PM on weekdays and all day on Saturdays, Sundays and ho
lidays there is a 15 cents charge for children under 14 years and a 35 cents cha
rge for children over 14 years. Free Cricket Matches At both Van Cortland Park i
n the Bronx and Walker Park on Staten Island every Sunday afternoon there are fr
ee cricket matches. Get schedule from British Travel Association, 43 W. 61st St.
At Walker Park, free tea and crumpets are served during intermission. I say! Fr
ee Park EventsAll kinds of activities in the Parks are free. Call 755-4100 for a
recorded announcement of the week's events. The freak center is the rowing pond
around 70th St. and Bethesda Fountain around 72nd St. in Central Park, although
it floats. Busts are non-existent. A complete list of all recreational faciliti
es can be obtained by calling the New York City Department of Parks.
Museums
¥ American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Numismatic Society, and the Ameri
can Geographical Society are all located at Broadway and 155th St.
¥ Asia House Gallery - 112 E. 64th St. Art objects from the Far East. ¥ Brooklyn Mu
seum - Eastern Parkway and Washington Ave. Egyptian stuff best in the world outs
ide Egypt. Take IRT (Broadway line) express train to Brooklyn Museum station. (D
on't miss the Gardens in back.) ¥ The Cloisters - Weekdays 10 AM to 5 PM, Sundays
1 PM to 6 PM. Take IND Eighth Avenue express (A train) at 190th Str. station and
walk a few blocks. The number 4 Fifth Avenue bus also goes all the way up and i
t's a pleasant ride. One of the best trip places in medieval setting.
¥ Frick Museum - 1 E. 70th St. Great when you're stoned. Closed Mondays.
¥ The Hispanic Society of America - Broadway between 15th and 16th Streets. The be
st Spanish art collection in the city.
¥ Marine Museum of the Seaman's Church - 25 South St. All kinds of model ships and
sea stuff. Also the Seaport Museum on 16 Fulton St.
¥ Metropolitan Museum - 5th Ave. and 82nd St.
¥ Museum of the American Indian - Broadway at 155th St. Largest Indian museum in t
he world. Open Tuesday to Sunday 1 to 5 PM. Take IRT (Broadway line) local to 15
7th St. station.
¥ Museum of the City of New York - 103rd St. and 5th Ave. LE 4-1672
¥ Museum of Modern Art - 11 W. 53rd St. CI 5-3200. Monday is free.
¥ Museum of Natural History - Central Park West and 79th St. Great dinosaurs and
other stuff. Weekdays 10-5 PM, Sunday 1-5 PM.
¥ Museum of the Performing Arts - Lincoln Center, Amsterdam Ave. and 65th St. 799-
2200
¥ New York Historical Society - 77th St. and Central Park West. TR 3-3400
¥ Chase Manhattan Museum of Money - 1256 6th Ave. All banks, especially Chase Manh
attan ones are museums when you get right down to it. Liberate them!
Music
¥ Summer Musical Festival in Central Park. About the closest you can come to good
free rock music. There are concerts every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
in the months of July and August. It only costs $1.00 or $2.00, and everybody i
n the music world plays at least once. The concerts are held at the Wollman Ice
Skating Ring. Occasionally there are free rock concerts in Central Park.
¥ The Greenwich House of Music located at 46 Barrow St. in the West Village puts o
n free concerts and recitals every Friday at 8:30 PM. For a complete schedule se
nd a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
¥ The Frick Museum, 1 E. 70th St., BU 8-0700, has concerts every Sunday afternoon.
The best of the classical offerings. You must hassle a little. Send a self-addr
essed stamped envelope that will arrive on Monday before the date you wish to go
. One letter, one ticket. The Donnell Library, 20 W. 53rd St. also presents free
classical music. The schedule is found in "Calendar of Events" at any library.
¥ The Juilliard School presents a variety of free stuff: orchestral, opera, dance,
chamber music, string quartets and soloists. Performances take place most Frida
y evenings at 8:30 PM, from November through May. ¥ The Museum of the City of New
York, 5th Ave. between 103rd St. and 104th St. every Sunday at 2:30 PM, October
through April. Phone first: LE 4-1672. Classical.
¥ New York Historical Society, from December through April, has glee clubs, strin
g groups, and classical singers performing on Sundays at 2:30 PM., 170 Central P
ark West (near 77th St.), Phone TR 3-3400 for schedule.
¥ Brooklyn Museum has classical concerts by assorted soloists and groups and are p
resented free every Sunday from October through June at 2 PM, Eastern Parkway an
d Washington Ave. NE 8-5000.Television ShowsYou can sometimes pick up tickets to
television shows at the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, 90 E. 42nd St.
For the bigger and better shows you have to write direct to the studios. If you
do write, do it as far in advance as possible. CBS, 51 W. 52nd St., asks you to
write two months in advance. Sometimes you can get last-minute tickets for the
Ed Sullivan Theater, 1697 Broadway. For NBC shows, write NBC Ticket Division, 30
Rockefeller Plaza. There is also a ticket desk on the NBC Mezzanine of 30 Rocke
feller Plaza where tickets are given out for the day shows on a first-come-first
-served basis. It's open Monday through Friday from 9-5. ABC, 1330 Sixth Ave. as
k you to write two to three weeks in advance for tickets. You can get tickets up
to the day of the show by calling in or visiting the ticket office of ABC, 79 W
. 66th St. or 1330 6th Ave. (LT 1-7777). Metromedia also gives out free tickets
to their shows and you can get them by writing to WNEW-TV, 205 E. 67th St. (LE 5
-1000).Theater
¥ The Dramatic Workshop, Studio number 808, Carnegie Hall Building, 881 7th Ave. a
t 56th St. Free on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8:15 PM. JU 6-4800 for informa
tion.
¥ New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacourte Theater, Central Park. Every night exc
ept Monday. Performance begins at 8:00 PM, but get there before 6:00 PM to be as
sured of tickets.
¥ Pageant Players, the Sixth Street Theater Group and other street theater groups
perform on street corners and in parks. Free theater is also provided at the Uni
ted Nations Building and the Stock Exchange on Wall Street. If you enjoy sevente
enth century comedy.
¥ The Equity Library Theatre gives performances of old Broadway hits at the Master
s Institute, 103rd St. and Riverside Drive. They perform Tuesday through Sunday
at 8:30 PM and Sunday at 2:30 PM. Free tickets are not always available so phone
ahead (MO 3-2038) for reservations. No shows during the summer.
¥ The Museum of Performing Arts, 111 Amsterdam Ave. offers plays, dance programs a
nd music. Shows start at 6:30 PM. Tickets are handed out at 4:00 PM. Saturday sh
ows start at 2:30 PM. You can write for a calendar of events to 1865 Broadway or
call 799-2200.Movies
¥ The New York Historical Society, Central Park West and 77th St. presents Hollywo
od movies every Saturday afternoon. TR 3-3400 for a schedule.
¥ At the Metropolitan Museum, Fifth Ave. and 82nd St., you can see art films every
Monday at 3:00 PM. TR 9-5500 for a schedule.
¥ New York University has a very good free movie program as well as poetry, lectur
es, and theatre presentations. Call the Program Director's Office 598-2026 for a
schedule.
¥ The Film Library in the Donnell Library, 20 W. 53rd St., 790-6463, has a wide va
riety of films which may be borrowed free of charge. The Library system also pre
sents film programs throughout the year. Pick up a Calendar of Events which list
s the free showings at all the branches. ¥ The Museum of Modern Art is free every
Monday and they have a free film showing at 2 and 5 PM. Get a schedule at the Mu
seum. They have the largest movie collection in the world.
¥ Museum of Natural History, Central Park West between 77th and 81st St. (TR 3-130
0), presents travel and anthropological films on Wednesday and Saturday afternoo
ns at 2:00 sharp, from October through May.Every movie that plays in New York ha
s a series of screenings for critics, film buyers and friends of the folks that
made it. Look in the Yellow Pages under Motion Picture Studios and Motion Pictur
e Screening Rooms. Once you get the feel of it, you'll quickly learn who shows w
hat, where and when. They always let you in free and if not give some gull story
. (See Free Entertainment section). If you see previews in a theater or notice a
publicity build-up in the newspapers, the movie is being screened at one or mor
e of the rooms.
INFORMATION
¥ Daily News-220 E. 42nd St., will answer any questions you put to them. Well almo
st!
¥ General information: 883-1122
¥ Sports: 883-1133
¥ Travel: 883-1144
¥ Weather: 883-1155
¥ For the latest news, call the wire services:
¥ AP is PL 7-1312, UPI is
¥ MU 2-0400.
¥ The New York Times Research Bureau, 229 W. 43rd St., 556-1651, will research new
s questions that pertain to the past three months. Liberation News Service at 16
0 Claremont Ave., will give you up-to-the-minute coverage of radical news. Call
749-2200.
UNDERGROUND PAPERS
¥ East Village Other-20 E. 12th St., 255-2130
¥ Liberation-339 Lafayette St., 674-0050
¥ Other Scenes-Box 8, Village Station, 242-3888
¥ Rat-241 E. 14th St., 228-4460
¥ Win-339 Lafayette St., 674-0050
¥ For others, call Underground Press Syndicate, Box 26, Village Station, 691-6073M
ISCELLANEOUS
¥ Dial-A-Beating-911
¥ Dial-a-Demonstration 924-6315
¥ Dial-a-Satellite-TR 3-0404
¥ Time-NERVOUS ¥ Weather-WE 6-1212.
¥ The Switchboard-989-0720, at the Alternate U, is open 6 PM to 3 AM.
THE SUBWAY SYSTEM
The first thing to do is get familiar with the geography of stops you use most f
requently. Locate the token cage. Check to see whether the exits are within easy
view of the teller, off to the side, or blocked from view by concrete pole-supp
orters. Next learn the type of turnstile in use. Follow the hints laid down in t
he Free Transportation section. The rush hours are always the easiest times. Jus
t go through the exits as people push open the door. Also at crowded hours, peop
le go single file past the turnstiles, one after another in a steady stream. Get
in line and go under. The people will block you from view and won't do anything
. Even a cop won't give you much hassle. Some subway stations have concrete supp
orts that block the teller's view. Where these exist, slip through the exit near
est the pole or slide by the turnstile. Turnstile jumping is such a skill, it's
going to be added to the Olympics. There are three basic styles common to New Yo
rk and most cities and each needs a slightly different approach. The Old Wooden
Cranker-(Traditional) You have to go under or sail over this type. Going under i
s a smoother trip. Going over is trickier since you need both hands free to hurd
le and it's a quicker, more noticeable motion. New-Aluminum-Bar-Turnstiles-Which
-Turn-Both-Ways-For-Exit-and-Entrance-Approach it with confidence. Pretend you'r
e putting in a token with your right hand and pull the bar toward you one third
of the way with your left hand. Go through the space left between the bars and t
he barrier. Not for heavyweights! New-Aluminum-Bar-Turnstiles-Which-Can-Be-Used-
Only-For-Entrance-They won't pull towards you, and so, you must go either under
or over them. NOTE: There is no way to tell a New-Aluminum-Bar-Turnstile-Which-T
urns-Both--Ways-For-Exit-and-Entrance from a New-Aluminum-Bar-Turnstile-Which-Ca
n-Be-Used-Only-For-Entrance unless there is a sign. You have to try it first. Th
erefore, it is important to remember which kind is in use at your local station
so your technique will be smooth. Once you're through, remember in your mind you
've paid. Ignore everybody who tries to stop you or tell you different. If someo
ne shouts just keep on truckin' on toward your track. Don't stop or run. Insist
you are right if you ever get caught. We have been doing it for years, got caugh
t twice and let go both tunes when other passengers insisted we paid. Everybody
hates the subways, even the tellers.
FREEBIES
Clothing RepairsAll Wallach stores feature a service that includes sewing on bu
ttons, free shoe horns, and shoe laces, mending pants pockets and linings, punch
ing extra holes in belts, and a number of other free services. FurnitureBy far t
he best place to get free furniture in New York is on the street. Once a week in
every district, the Sanitation Department makes bulk pick-ups. The night before
, residents put out all kinds of stuff on the street. For the best selection try
the West Village on Monday nights, and the East Seventies on Tuesday nights. On
Wednesday night there are fantastic pick-ups on 35th St. in-back of Macy's. Mov
e quickly though, the guards get pissed off easily; the truckers couldn't care l
ess. This street method can furnish your whole pad. Beds, desks, bureaus, lamps,
bookcases, chairs, and tables. It's all a matter of transportation. If you don'
t have access to a car or truck, it's worth it to rent a station wagon and make
pick-ups. GhostsIf you would like to meet a real ghost, write Hans Holtzer, c/o
New York Committee for Investigation for Paranormal Research, 140 Riverside Driv
e, New York, NY. He'll put you in touch for free.
Free Lessons
Lessons in a variety of skills such as plumbing, electricity, jewelry-making, co
nstruction and woodworking are provided by the Mechanics Institute, 20 W. 44th S
t. Call or write them well in advance for a schedule. You must sign up early for
lessons as they try to maintain small courses. MU 7-4279.Poemsare free. Are yo
u a poem or are you a prose? Liberated Churches
¥ Saint Mark's in the Bowery, Second Ave. and 10th ST. (674-6377
¥ Washington Square Methodist Church, 133 W. Fourth St.,
¥ Greenwich Village (777-2528); Judson Memorial Church, Washington Square South (7
25-9211).Flowers At about 9:30 AM, free flowers in the Flower District on Sixth
Ave. between 22nd St. and 23rd St. Once in a while, you can find a potted tree t
hat's been thrown out because it's slightly damaged. The Staten Island Ferry-Not
free, but a nickel each way for a five mile ocean voyage around the southern ti
p of Manhattan is worth it. Take IRT (Broadway line) to South Ferry, local only.
Ferry leaves every half-hour day and night. DrugsIn the area along Central Park
West in the Seventies and Eighties are located many doctor's offices. Daily the
y throw out piles of drug samples. If you know what you're looking for, search t
his area.
Books
You can always use the library. The main branch is on Fifth Ave. and 42nd St. Th
e Public Library prints a leaflet entitled "It's Your Library" which lists all t
he 168 branches and special services the library provides. You can pick it up at
your nearest branch. They also publish a calendar of events every two weeks whi
ch is available free. If you have any questions call 791-6161.You can get free p
osters, literature and books from the various missions to the United Nations loc
ated on the East Side near the UN Building. The Cuban Mission, 67th St., will gi
ve you free copies of Granma, the Cuban newspaper, Man and Socialism in Cuba, by
Che Guevara and other literature.
Maps
A free subway map is available at any token booth. Good if you're new in the cit
y and don't know your way around.
Pets
ASPCA, 441 E. 92nd St. and York Ave., TR 6-7700. Dogs, cats, some birds and othe
r pets. Tell them you're from out of town if you want a dog and you will not hav
e to pay the $5.00 license fee. Have them inspect and inoculate the pet; which t
hey do free of charge. A place to look for free pets is in the Village Voice und
er their column Free Pets.
Radio Free New York
WBAI FM, 99.5 on your dial. 30 E. 39th St. (OX 7-8506).
Free Schools
¥ Alternative University, 69 W. 14th St. (989-0666). A good radical school offerin
g courses in karate, Mao, medical skills and other courses. They will send you a
catalogue listing current courses.
¥ Bottega Artists Workshop, 1115 Quentin Road, Brooklyn, 336-3212 has art taught b
y professionals for a free.
GENERAL SERVICES
¥ Contact-220 E. Seventh St. Open 3 to 10 PM. Raps, contacts, mailing addresses, c
ounseling, sometimes food.
¥ Traveler's Aid-204 E. 39th St. MU 4-5029
¥ Village Project-88 Second Ave. Open 2 to 6 PM. Same as Contact.
fuck Chicago
HOUSING
Contrary to rumors, none of us have ever been to Chicago. None-the-less, we have
some friends who have visited the area. In Chicago, everyone 17 or under must b
e off the streets by 10:30 PM and by 11:30 PM on Fridays and Saturdays. Don't sl
eep in Lincoln Park during political conventions, but other nights it's O.K. Was
n't it Hillel who asked, "Why is this night different from all other nights?" An
d wasn't it Mayor Richard J. Daley who responded, "Cause I say get your ass out
of the park! "The Chicago Seed (929-0133) will give you the best advice on crash
ing and the local heat scene. Grace Lutheran Church, 555 W. Beldon St., and the
Looking Glass at 1725 W. Wilson also have crashing places or know where you can
find free room and board. You won't get hassled if you sack out in the Union Sta
tion on Adams Street just over the bridge. There are loads of folks crashing in
abandoned buildings along LaSalle and other streets. Also the rooftops are cool.
Stay off the streets though, unless you've got good identification.
FOOD
SCLC (Operation Breadbasket) has a free breakfast program every morning Monday t
hrough Friday from 7-10 AM at St. Anna Church, 55th St. and LaSalle St., and als
o at Christ the King Lutheran Church located at 3700 Lake Park. You can get free
samples of cheese, meat, and coffee everyday at the Stop and Shop food store lo
cated on Washington between Dearborn and State Streets. At the Treasure Island g
rocery store located on Broadway, two blocks north of Belmont, free coffee and c
ookies are offered for the people. Halloway House at 27 W. Randolph gives coupon
s good for coffee. Also at the Guild Bookstore at 25 W. Jackson Blvd., and from
the machines at the 4th through 14th floors of the Playboy Building. There are r
eal cheap restaurants. One is a truck-stop in Skokie called Karl's Cafe. It's ju
st north of Oakton on Skokie Highway. It's open until 6:00. You get a whole lot
of food for $1.00. Also, under the viaduct at Milwaukee and Damen is a small res
taurant with Polish food. You can get a great meal for $1.35. It's worth a visit
. It closes early in the evening. Another cheap restaurant is Paul and Ernie's o
n North Lincoln, just south of Wrightwood. You can have a beef dinner for about
70 cents. A good place to pick up free vegetables and fruits is at the wholesale
market on Randolph St. or S. Water St. on Friday afternoons. Many of the food f
actories such as Kraft Dairy Products give away free samples and cases for "char
ity." Check them out. It is possible to steal food from the 2nd floor Federal Bu
ilding Cafeteria at Adams and Dearborn and the National Cafeteria at Clark and V
an Buren. These cafeterias usually have long lines and you can eat while standin
g and just pay for the coffee. If you have a place to cook and store food, there
are a few places that have pretty cheap food. The east gate of International Ha
rvester, located at 1015 W. 120th St. is unbelievable. Dig these bargains! 10 po
unds of T-bone steaks (boxed) for $5.25 at midnight. at 4 PM, the produce man br
ings a different combination of goods. A typical bill of fare might include toma
toes, cucumbers, strawberries, etc. at $1.00 for 10 pounds of any item. The prod
uce might vary from day to day, but the prices stay the same. On Thursdays at no
on and 4 PM, the Lennell cookie man comes around. It's $1.25 per box. At 7 PM, t
he sausage man arrives and the standard price is $2.00. The standard size is 3 t
o 5 pounds. He has salami, liver sausage, polish sausage, and usually odd lunchm
eat such as bologna or summer sausage. All the food is sold out of trucks, and t
he prices might not be exact, but they're pretty close. Eggs are about 3 dozen f
or $2.00 on Randolph west of Halsted. Orange juice is pretty cheap at the Del Fa
rm on Broadway. Wonder Bread thrift store on Diversey; Butternut, 87th St. and R
idgeland and 1471 W. Wilson, and Silvercup, 55th and Federal, offer bread and ro
lls at big discounts. The Cicero Bottling Company at 31st St. and 48 Court sell
a case of 12 quart bottles for $2.00. Mamas Cookies, 7400 S. Kastner give 5 poun
ds for $1.50. At Burhops, State and Grand, you can get cheap 5-pound boxes of st
eak. The Railroad Salvage around Madison and Halsted has dented cans (with stuff
inside) for big discounts. It is also a good place for paper products. Campbell
Soup, 2250 W. 55th St., open Tuesday and Thursday, will give you cases free or
at discounts if you tell them it's for charity or look straight. Two good spots
for all around shopping are the Hi-Lo on Lincoln, north of Irving. There's lots
of stuff for 10 cents. Marathon Products at Randolph and Halsted is another good
place.If you can survive on just one meal a day, you're set. The city has just
opened 14 free lunch centers throughout the town. They are located at:
¥ Antgeld Urban Progress Center-967 E. 132nd St.
¥ Area II Multi-Service Center of DHR-1500 N. North Park
¥ Division Street Urban Progress Center-1940 W. Division
¥ DHR Woodlawn District Office-6317 S. Maryland
¥ Englewood District Office of DHR-6003 S. Halsted
¥ Garfeld Neighborhood Service Program-9 S. Kedzie
¥ Halsted Urban Progress Center-1935 S. Halsted
¥ Lawndale Urban Progress Center-3818 W. Roosevelt
¥ Madden Park Fieldhouse-500 E. 37th St.
¥ Martin Luther King Urban Progress Center-4741 S. King Drive
¥ Montrose Urban Progress Center-901 W. Montrose
¥ North Kenwood CCUO Office-4155 S. Lake Park
¥ South Chicago Urban Progress Center-9231 S. Houston
¥ Southern District DHR Office-2108 E. 71st St.
The free hot meals consist of meat, potatoes, a vegetable, dessert, fruit, and c
offee or milk. You have to give them a name and an address.
MEDICAL CARE
All three major universities have excellent clinics that do most kinds of medica
l work for free. The University of Chicago maintains a clinic at 950 E. 59th St.
The University of Illinois has one located at 840 S. Wood. In addition to good
medical care, Northwestern University Clinic offers very cheap dental treatment.
The clinic is at 303 E. Chicago. Call the main switchboard of the schools and a
sk for the clinics to check out services and hours. A V.D. clinic is open every
weekday and late on Wednesdays at 27 E. 26th St. and N. North Park. Chronic dise
ases are treated at 2974 N. Clybourn. Free chest X-rays are available at City Ha
ll downtown, everyday. For mental health problems, try the clinic at 1900 N. Sed
gwick (642-3531). Drug education is offered by Earth Mother on Wednesdays at the
Grace Church, 555 W. Belden. Information and help with bad trips can be obtaine
d through Just Us, 61 N. Parkside (378-7618) or LSD Rescue Service, 7717 N. Sher
idan (338-6750). Chicago has a number of good clinics maintained by movement and
community groups spread throughout the city for the people that live in the are
a. The Black Panther Party runs the Spurgeon "Jake" Winters Free People's Clinic
at 3850 W. 16th St. (522-3220). The Young Patriots Uptown Health Service locate
d at 4408 N. Sheridan (334-8957) serves the people in that community. The Young
Lords maintain the Dr. E. Betances Free People's Health Center at Peoples Church
, 834 W. Armitage (549-8505). The Latin American Defense Organization has a clin
ic on 2353 W. North Avenue, (276-0900). The growing Student Health Organization
administers a number of small clinics in various communities. Call them at 493-2
741 or drop into their office at 1613 E. 53rd St. At the Holy Covenant Church, o
n Wilton and Diversey, you can get medical assistance at the Free People's Clini
c as well as help with legal, housing, family planning and nutrition problems. C
all 348-6842. All these clinics provide a variety of services and operate on dif
ferent schedules. Call them first to be sure they are open.
LEGAL AID
Chicago has a number of good law schools and you can often get some assistance o
r referral by calling them and speaking to the editor of the law school paper. Y
ou can go to the bathroom for free in the Julius J. Hoffman Room at Northwestern
University Law School. The Law Student Commune, 357 E. Chicago, 649-8462, is a
group of young radical lawyers and law students trying to bring legal assistance
into the streets. The People's Law Office 2156 N. Halsted, 929-1880 operates th
e same way. For community problems, call the Lincoln Park Rights Center, 525-977
5, or the Community Legal Counsel, 726-0157. The ACLU maintains a large chapter
in Chicago at 6 S. Clark, 236-5564, and handles cases where civil liberties are
affected.
DRAFT COUNSELING
¥ American Friends Service Committee - 407 S. Dearborn St. 427-2533
¥ Austin Draft Counseling Center - 5903 Fulton 626-9385
¥ Chicago Area Draft Resisters (Cadre) - 519 W. North Ave. 664-6895
¥ Chicago Circle Draft Information Organization University of Illinois, 317 Chicag
o Circle Center 663-2557
¥ Hyde Park Draft Information Center - Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Ave. 363-124
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¥ Kennedy King Draft Counseling Center - 7047 S. Stewart - 488-0900, ext. 36 ¥ Lawn
dale Draft Counseling - 4049 W. 28th St. 277-3140 ¥ Loyola Draft Counseling Center
6525 N. Sheridan, 274-3000 ext. 378
¥ Mandel Legal Aid Clinic - 6020 S. University Ave. 324-5181
¥ Ravenswood Draft Counseling - Barry Memorial Methodist Church, 4754 N. Leavitt 7
84-3272
¥ Roosevelt Selective Service Counseling Organization - Roosevelt University Stude
nt Senate Office, Rm. 204, 430 S. Michigan Ave. 922-3580 ext. 334
¥ South Side Draft Information (Mt. Carmel Book Dist.) 2355 W. 63rd St. 925-3686
¥ Uptown Hull House Draft Information Service - 4520 N. Beacon St. 561-8033
¥ Wellington Avenue Congregational Church Draft Counseling Center -615 W. Wellingt
on Ave. 935-0642.
PLAY
Parks
Lincoln Park stretches along Lake Michigan in the Northern section of the city.
It has a Conservatory and Zoo, opened 9 AM to 5 PM. Just south of the zoo is the
 gathering place for free rock concerts, be-ins, and the like. There is also a
zoo in the Brookfield section at 8400 W. 31st St. The Morton Arboretium located
on Route 53 in Lisle is open every day till sunset. The Shedd Aquarium is locate
d at 1200 South Lake Shore Drive at Roosevelt.
Music
he Auditorium and Opera House sometimes offers free concerts on Sunday and weekn
ights. Hang around the lobby and claim there are tickets in your name at the box
office. Even if it's a pay concert you can generally bluff your way inside. The
Center for New Music, 2263 N. Lincoln, usually has free concerts on Sunday and
Monday at 8 PM. WGLD is the local underground station. The Universal Life Church
Coffee House, 1049 W. Polk has free rock and folk music on the weekends. Free C
ity Music sponsors free rock concerts during the spring and summer in Lincoln P
ark.
MUSEUMS
¥ The Art Institute - Adams and Michigan. Opens daily at 10 AM. Great art museum.
¥ Chicago Academy of Science-Lincoln Park at 2001 N. Clark. (LI 9-0606) Open daily
from 10 AM to 5 PM.
¥ Field Museum of Natural History-Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive. Time of open
ing varies from day to day; call 922-9410. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday admissi
on is free.
¥ Museum of Contemporary Art-237 E. Ontario (943-7755) Open daily.
¥ Museum of Science and Industry-57th St. in the Hyde Park area. (MU 4-1414) Open
daily from 9 AM to 5 PM. Our all-time favorite museum.
¥ The Oriental Institute-University of Chicago campus, 1155 E. 58th St. (643-0800)
Open daily, except Monday, from 10AM to 5 PM.PoetryThe Other Door Coffee House,
3124 N. Broadway, features nightly poetry readings and music. Call 348-8552. Ca
fe Pergolesi, 3404 N. Halsted, features poetry readings, baroque music and an ar
t gallery. There is no cover or minimum. Open 6 to 12 PM, and till 1:00 AM on Sa
turday.
Theater
The Playhouse North, 315 W. North Ave. features free theater. For $1.00, you can
see various groups perform at the Harper Theater Coffee House at 5238 S. Harper
. Second City, l616 N. Wells, has free improvisations after their evening perfor
mances every evening except Fridays. Free children's theater can be seen at La D
olores, 1980 North Orchard, Mondays and Wednesdays at 1 PM. Call 664-2352.Movies
¥ The Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. shows double bills for $1.25 and has
a penny candy counter. John Dillinger got ambushed when he left the place. Free
Newsreel films can be seen Wednesdays at 8 PM at the Neighborhood Commons, Wisc
onsin and Freemart. Newsreel, 2744 N. Lincoln (248-2018) provides movement films
for free or law cost to groups. ¥ Alice's Revisited, 950 N. Wrightwood, is a rest
aurant that shows free movies. On Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM they have free f
olk-rock-blues music. Saturdays they also have free children's theater. Tuesdays
they have psychodrama, also for free. Call 528-4250 for more info.
INFORMATION
¥ The Switchboard number is 281-7197.Underground Papers
¥ Rising Up Angry - 2261 N. Lincoln 472-1791
¥ Second City - 2120 N. Halsted 549-8760
¥ The Chicago Seed - 950 W. Wrightwood 929-0133The Seed features a column called "
Making It," which deals with survival in the Windy City. It is probably the best
of its type in the country.The Black Panther Party office is located at 2350 W.
Madison (243-8276).
COMMUNITY PRINTING
¥ Agitprop - no office; phone 929-0133
¥ Chicago Print Co-op. - 6710 N. Clark
¥ J. S. Jordan Memorial Printing Co-op. - 6710 N. Clark
¥ Omega Posters - 711 S. Dearborn
¥ Red Star Press - 180 N. WacherSCHOOLSThe People's School, 4409 N. Sheridan (561-
6737), offers free courses in many areas of survival and radical politics. The W
hite Panther Party, 787-1962, offers courses in street fighting, history of Amer
ican radicalism, and dialectic sexism.
FREEBIES
Clothes
The Concerned Citizens Survival Front, 2512 N. Lincoln Ave. has clothes. Try the
dry cleaners on Armitage east of Halsted along the south side of the street. Th
ey give away unclaimed stuff. Also Brazil Cleaners at 3943 Indiana. The Eugene B
lue Jean Store at 7017 Paulina has jeans, old army shirts and other items for le
ss than a dollar.
Furniture
The Lake Shore Drive area on collection days has furniture. Call the bureau of S
treets and Sanitation for a collection schedule.
Free Store
At 727 S. Laflin, you'll find a genuine free store that gives away everything yo
u can imagine. It has a tendency to be a floating free store though.
Money
Pick up some underground papers at any of the offices listed and hawk them on th
e streets. You can pull in $6-$10 an hour if you work at it.fuck los angeles
HOUSING
There are several crash pads and communes that will put you up for a few nights.
Call the Free Clinic at 938-9141. Floor space is available at the Sans Souce Te
mple on S. Ardmore. Women's Emergency Lodge at 912 W. 9th St. (627-5571) w
ill put up women without a place to stay or make referrals. Resistance (386-9645
) and Green Power (HQ 9-5184) will be helpful if you have to crash. Sleeping on
the beaches is out, but the roofs are cool. The Midnite Mission at 396 S. Los An
geles (624-9258) has room and board for some boarders. The parks and streets are
certain bust material. The L.A. pigs are matched in brutality only by their fel
low hoggers in Chicago and South Africa. Every L.A. cop is nine feet of solid ch
rome. Bite his toes and down he goes.
FOOD
Green Power Feeds Millions is a unique organization serving the nets of people.
They provide food for festivals, cancers, demonstrations, be-ins, sit-ins and si
milar events for free. In addition they supply a number of communes and serve fo
od every Sunday in Griffith Park, the central get-together spot in Los Angeles.
Call them at HO 9-5184 or 938-9141 for information and also to offer your help.
Free vegetarian lunch can be found at the W. Hollywood Presbyterian Church at Su
nset and Martel (874-1816). For supper, try the Midnite Mission, 396 S. Los Ange
les Street; God Squas, 1412 N. Crescent Heights Blvd. (near Sunset), and His Pla
ce, Sunset and La Cienega. The Half-Price Bakery at Third and Hill St. gives awa
y free bakery goods late at night and you can always bum a meal in any Clifton's
Cafeteria with a good story. The Watts Trojan House is a free store that provid
es not only food, both clothing and a variety of other items and service. They a
re located at 1822 E. 103rd St. The County Welfare Department at 2707 S. Grand (
near Adams Street) has a liberal food stamp program (746-0522).
MEDICAL CARE
¥ The Free Clinic at 115 N. Fairfax Ave. (938-9141) is very popular and provides a
number of services at various hours such as:
¥ Job Co-ops--Monday thru Friday, 10:00-4:00 PM.
¥ Medical--Monday thru Friday, 5:30-l0:00 PM. Saturday 12:30-5:00 PM. ¥ Dental--
Monday thru Thursday, 7-10 PM.
¥ Counseling-Psychiatric, Monday thru Friday, 6-10 PM.
¥ Legal Monday thru Friday, 7-10 PM
¥ Draft-Monday thru Thursday, 7:30-10:00 PM.
¥ Pregnancy and Abortion--Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 7:30. Saturday 1:30 PM
¥ Birth Control-Monday thru Friday, 6-7 PM. Saturday 2-3 PM.
¥ The Foothill Clinic, 547 E. Union in Pasadena (795-8088) offers similar services
free of charge. Call them for a schedule of hours. Venereal Diseases are treate
d in the evenings at a clinic maintained by the Committee to Eradicate Syphillis
. They are found at 5205 Melrose Ave., Hollywood (870-2524).
¥ In Venice use the free Youth Clinic at 905 Venice Blvd. (near Lincoln). The serv
ices are varied and they are only open evenings. Call 399-7743 and they'll help
you.
¥ For specialized problems try:
¥ Drugs--Narcotics Anonymous (463-3123)
¥ Abortion-The Woman's Center, 1027 S. Crenshaw (near Olympic Blvd.) Wednesdays at
7:30 PM.
¥ Mental--Central City Community Mental Health Center, 4272 S. Broadway (232-2441)
¥ Suicide Prevention Center, 2521 W. Pico (381-5111)
¥ District Health Centers provide many free services. For exact information, call
the center or write to:
¥ County of Los Angeles Health Department, Public Health Education Division, 220 N
. Broadway, Los Angeles, California 90012. Ask for a list and information about
their health services.
¥ EAST LOS ANGELES-670 S. Ferris Ave. 261-3191.
¥ SUBCENTER--MARAVILLA - 915 N. Bonnie Beach Pl. 264-6910.
¥ HOLLYWOOD-WILSHIRE-5202 Melrose Ave. 464-0121.
¥ SUBCENTER-WEST HOLLYWOOD-621 N. San Vincente Blvd. 652-3090. ¥ NORTH HOLLY
WOOD-5300 Tujunga Ave. 766-3981.
¥ SUBCENTERS-PACOIMA--13300 Van Nuys Blvd. 899-0231.
¥ TUJUNGA--7747 Foothill Blvd. 352-1417.
¥ SOUTH-1522 E. 102 St. 564-6801
¥ SUBCENTER--FLORENCE-Firestone-8019 Compton Ave 583-6241.
¥ SOUTHEAST - 4920 Avalon Blvd. 231-2161.
¥ SOUTHWEST - 3834 S.Western Ave. 731-8541.
LEGAL AID
¥ The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles at 106 3rd St. (628-9126) provides help
in civil matters.
¥ The ACLU of Southern California is located at 323 W. Fifth St. (MA 6-5156).
DRAFT COUNSELING
¥ AFSC - 980 N. Fair Oaks, Pasadena 91103 (791-1978)
¥ Black Community Draft Assistance-7228 S. Broadway, LA 90003 (778-0710)
¥ Catholic Peace Assn.--911 Malcolm Ave., Westwood 90024 (474-2683)
¥ Counterdraft-PO Box 74881, LA 90004
¥ East LA Peace Center-409 N. Soto, LA 90033 (261-2047)
¥ Episcopal Draft Counseling Center-514 W. Adams Blvd., LA 90004 (748-4662)
¥ Fellowship for Reconciliation 4356¸ Melrose, LA 90029 (666-0145)
¥ First Unitarian Church-2936 W. Eighth St., LA 90005 (389-1356)
¥ Free Clinic-115 N. Fairfax, LA 90036 (938-9141)
¥ L.A. Comm. for Defense of Bill of Rights-(MA 5-2169)
¥ L.A. Draft Help-1018 S. Hill St., LA (RI 7-5461)
¥ Myra House-191 N. Sunkist, West Covina (338-9636)
¥ Northeast Peace Center-5682 York Blvd., LA 90042 (257-2004)
¥ Peace House-724 Morengo, Pasadena 91103 (449-8228)
¥ Resistance-507 N. Hoover, LA 90004
¥ The Resistance-11317 Santa Monica Blvd., Westwood 90024 (478-2374)
¥ SFVSC-Student Service Center, Admissions and Records Office, San Fernando Valley
State College, Northridge (349-1200, ext. 1181)
¥ UCLA Draft Counseling Center--UCLA Law School, 405 Hilgard Ave., LA 90024 (746-6
092)
¥ USC Counseling Center-Gould Law School, University Park, Student Union Bldg., Rm
. 217 (746-6092)
¥ Valley Peace Center-7105 Hayvenhurst, Van Nuys 91406 (787-6925). Tuesday and Wed
nesday evenings.
¥ Venice Draft Info Center--73 Market St., Venice 90291 (399-5812)
¥ War Resisters League-1046 N. Sweetzer, LA 90069 (654-4491)
¥ Westside Jewish Community Center-5870 W. Olympic Blvd., LA 90046 (938-2531) ¥ Wome
n Strike for Peace-5899 W. Pico Blvd., LA 90019 (937-0236)
PLAY
Beaches
Los Angeles has 14 miles of beaches extending from north of Pacific Palisades to
Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro.Will Rogers Beach State Park, 15100 Pacific Coast H
ighway, Pacific Palisades, extends north three miles from the Santa Monica city
limits to a point near Topanga Canyon. This beach has a large, popular surfing a
rea. Venice Beach, 2100 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, extends from the Santa Monica
city limits south to Marina Del Rey. Six acres have been developed into a park w
ith picnic areas, shuffleboard courts and the Venice Beach Pavilion. The huge Ve
nice Fishing Pier is located here, and there is an area for surfing.Isidore B. D
ockweiler Beach State Park, 11401 Vista del Mar Ave. extends from Marina del Ray
, south of the city of El Segundo. This beach has 700 fire pits and a surfing ar
ea. Cabrillo Beach, 3720 Stephen White Drive, San Pedro, located at the northern
end of Los Angeles Harbor, has picnic areas, fire pits and a section for surfin
g. Royal Palms Beach, 1799 Paseo del Mar is equipped with picnic areas and fire
pits.
Parks
Griffith Park is the largest park and the favorite gathering spot of the local h
ip community. It's next to the Ventura and State Freeways. Arroyo Seco Park is l
ocated along the Arroyo Seco and has picnic, recreational and bowling-on-the-gre
en facilities. You'll also find the Los Angeles Zoo at 5333 Zoo Drive in the par
k. Brand Park and Memory Garden opposite the old Mission San Fernando is a real
strange place to go. Echo Park has the largest artificial lake in Los Angeles. F
ishing programs for kids are conducted each summer and electric boats are availa
ble for rent. Hancock Park, located on Wilshire Blvd, between Odgen and Curson,
has the LaBrea Tar Pits with prehistoric animal and plant fossils all over the p
lace. The Exposition Park Rose Garden on Exposition Blvd. is a seven-acre sunken
rose garden that smells great. Founded by Hubert Eaton as "the first step up to
heaven," Forest Lawn Memorial Park, overlooking beautiful downtown Glendale has
to be the wildest spot around. It is pure L.A. with the largest collection of r
eproduced statuary in the world. Jean Harlow, Sabu, Clark Gable and other loved
ones are tucked away here. You can turn on in front of the Jean Hersholt Memoria
l, fuck in the Aisle of Benevolence located in the Great Mausoleum, and trip out
on a stereo sermon emanating from the giant Mystery of Life sculpture. Far-fuck
ing out!
Museums
There are over fifty free museums in the greater Los Angeles area. We are listin
g those of special interest. California Museum of Science and Industry-Expositio
n Park, 749-0101.Hollywood Wax Museum-6767 Hollywood Blvd. (near Grauman's Chine
se Theater).Los Angeles County Museum of Art-5905 Wilshire Blvd. in Hancock Park
, 937-2590.MusicEvery Sunday there are free music concerts in Griffith Park.
Movies
U.C.L.A. has a free experimental film series every year. Call them at 825-4321 f
or a schedule.
INFORMATION The Switchboard in Los Angeles has a 24-hour-a-day service called th
e Hot Line. It's located at 4650 Sunset Blvd. (663-1015). Call them for the late
st in what's going down in the area. The L.A. Free Press at 7813 Beverly Blvd.
937-1970, is always a good source of information. The Black Panther Party Headqu
arters can be found at 4115 S. Central Ave., 235-4127, or at 9818 Anzac, in Watt
s, 567-8027. The Traveler's Aid Society has offices in the Greyhound Bus Termina
l and International Airport. They provide all kinds of services and information
to lost souls or visitors. Generally
FREEBIES
Clothes
The following spots offer clothes,furniture and other household items at low pri
ces:Goodwill Industries-235 So. Broadway 228-1748; 5208 Whittier 264-1638St. Vin
cent de Paul Society-727 N. Broadway 627-8147; 210 San Fernando Rd. 221-6151The
Volunteers of America maintain a number of thrift stores throughout the area. Tr
y 8609 S. Broadway or call 750-9251 for the store near you. The Salvation Army a
lso has a chain of stores. The main store is at 801 E. 7th St. 620-1270. They ca
n help you there or let you know where you can shop in your area.
Money
You can sell a pint of blood for $10.00 at the Red Cross Blood Bank, 1200 S. Ver
mont (384-5261).
Pets
All sorts of free pets are available at the ASPCA, 5026, W. Jefferson (731-2491)
.
Identification
Los Angeles has a curfew law but you can get a suitable I.D. with photo for $3.5
0 at Twelfth and Hill Streets. fuck san Francisco
HOUSING
The nights are chilly in San Francisco but there are places that offer a free ni
ght's lodging. To avoid overcrowding they tend to employ a ticket system. By sho
wing up in the late afternoon, you are generally assured a place to stay that ni
ght. The following places work it this way: ¥ Brother Juniper's Inn--1736 Haight,
tickets on a first-come, first-serve basis.
¥ Holy Order of Man--937 Fillmore, no tickets.
¥ Hospitality House--148 Leavenworth, for people under 18, generally filled.
¥ Pinehurst Emergency Lodge--2685 30th Ave., for unwed mothers and women with chil
dren.
¥ St. Mary's Church--660 California, tickets at 6:00 PM.
¥ St. Patrick's Church--756 Mission, tickets at 6:00 PM
¥ St. Vincent De Paul--235 Minna, tickets at 4:00 PM for single men only.
¥ Salvation Army Harbor Light--290 Fourth St., no tickets.
Traveler's Aid, 38 Mason, 771-0880, will assist in finding temporary shelter. Yo
ung runaways will find it cool to try All Saint's Church, 1350 Walker (863-9718)
for both room and board. Also Huckleberry's for Runaways, 1347 7th Ave. (731-39
21) will provide these and other services such as counseling. If you're going to
settle for a while in San Francisco, you might have difficulty finding an apart
ment to rent. Try the Federal Housing Information Center, 100 California (556-59
00). They maintain a free listing. The Community Design Center, 215 Haight (863-
3718) provides free advice on architectural and design of pads inside and out on
ce you locate a place, speaking, you can find a Traveler's Aid Station in every
place that large numbers of travelers can be found.